What is the target audience for this particular brand of cotton candy? Teenage girls dreaming of first love while sipping cherry pop?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2017

A core of substance and a fine cast are squandered in the relentless hard-sell perkiness of this mild comic drama.

| Apr 3, 2017

A golden example of what can go wrong when a coming-of-age story shares the same insecurities as its lead character.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 31, 2017

As the title character, Bel Powley is so enormously compelling that she breathes life into Carrie's quirks and the story's contrivances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2017

Ms. Powley is a miracle worker.

| Mar 30, 2017

In her directorial debut, Susan Johnson balances the character's haughty brilliance and aimless privilege with an underlying vulnerability.

| Mar 29, 2017

The film is essentially an exercise in forcing a female genius back into her proper place of dependence on both the father figure and the Prince Charming.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 29, 2017

A well-intentioned but imperfect young-adult-skewing comedy-drama.

| Sep 19, 2016

This is, ultimately, a very happy and upbeat film, and one with a very clear moral center.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2016

This is not a film which challenges the stereotypes of teen coming of age movies. However the dialogue is sharp, and Powley's comic timing is well-tuned.

| Sep 11, 2016

This is awfully soft stuff, its navel-gazing protagonist not nearly as unusual or delightful as we're meant to think despite the high IQ she can't stop referencing.

| Sep 11, 2016

This 'emotionally immature braniac' character is funny and heartbreaking in equal measure

| Original Score: B- | Sep 11, 2016