http://waytooindie.com/review/movie/the-fault-in-our-stars/ Independent film and music reviews Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://waytooindie.com/review/movie/the-fault-in-our-stars/#comment-8198 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:03:55 +0000 http://waytooindie.com/?p=21765#comment-8198 […] over non-problems in Paper Towns, a flatlined adaptation of a John Green YA novel that makes The Fault In Our Stars look like an Abbas Kiarostami masterpiece. Good teen movies are about recognition, assuring awkward […]

]]> http://waytooindie.com/review/movie/the-fault-in-our-stars/#comment-7608 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:15:34 +0000 http://waytooindie.com/?p=21765#comment-7608 […] The Fault In Our Stars is a movie with a similar outer shell to Me and Earl, but with way more hanky-panky. That movie was about kids always saying the exact right thing or the exact wrong thing all the time, banging on the drums of romance and tragedy as hard as it can the whole way through. Me and Earl feels much more frazzled and uncomfortable and authentic, frankly, taking a more low-key approach that’s a little easier to digest than full-on melodrama. What’s captured here so well is the solipsism and confusion of being an adolescent who’s forced to deal with death before you’re ready to, an aspect of life so many films have trouble representing on-screen. Gomez-Rejon and his three young leads have so much promise it’s scary. […]

]]> http://waytooindie.com/review/movie/the-fault-in-our-stars/#comment-4903 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:10:57 +0000 http://waytooindie.com/?p=21765#comment-4903 […] a cowboy made a musical, but it wasn’t great. Personally, we thought the shmoopy YA movie The Fault in Our Stars with its clever dialogue and straightforward romance was better than all that CG fare. But if you […]

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