The cast brings the material to life, breathing life into a story that is simultaneously overwritten and under realised.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Paper Towns is a coming-of-age film that doesn't always get it right. But, when it does, it transcends the message across quite evidently.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2021

Hollywood can surprise us and serve up an honest, funny, entertaining, and endearing film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

Whether for looking forward or looking back, Paper Towns is worth the trip.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 16, 2019

An endearingly modest and quietly affecting adaptation of an early novel by wildly popular young-adult author John Green (The Fault in our Stars).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2019

Though it might not rival Easy A, Paper Towns has a place amongst the higher-quality teen films that have been gracing our screens in recent years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

The worst thing about Paper Towns isn't that it's poorly made or majorly flawed; it's that it's so humble and plain and unexciting that it saps the life out of you. It even sucks the life out of its talents.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 12, 2019

Nevertheless, this is a charming, engaging movie.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 2, 2018

It's actually quite harmless, and, at the end of a very long, slow, uneventful journey, it has an excellent message. I just wish the point could have been made with a little more panache.

| Aug 22, 2018

Look up the definition of "paper towns." Reading the definition in a dictionary will be more entertaining than seeing this movie.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 21, 2018

'Paper Towns' is an admirable film more due to what it tries to do, than to the final product, and although it does entertain, it could've done a lot more. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 1, 2018

A healthy amount of self-deprecating humor and self-awareness would have saved this well-intentioned (if meek) script from eternal mediocrity.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 24, 2017

I like everything about Paper Towns except for its premise and central romance. Yes, I know those sort of seem like dealbreakers, but the things I liked about Paper Towns marginally outweighed the things I didn't like. Marginally.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2016

Ferris Bueller said it best: 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.' 'Paper Towns' reminds us not to miss our life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2016

'Paper Towns' may well be the Manic Pixie Dream Girl's nadir.

| May 27, 2016

Overall, Paper Towns is a good and solid, if somewhat lengthy, film. The film is structurally and visually conventional with the odd glimmer of indie quirk.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2016

Destined to play second banana to last year's critical and commercial darling "The Fault In Our Stars." But as second bananas go, it's not a bad one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2016

A smart script peppered with genuinely witty dialogue and some nuanced acting by a young ensemble cast at least keep this coming-of-age story watchable throughout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2016

This is not a film that stings, lasts or moves - it's just a nice indie movie at the end of the day.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 5, 2016

With the overarching story so unengaging, coupled with Margot's fondness for making worldly statements no 18-year-old can say without sounding pretentious, this turns out to be better on paper.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2016