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

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

| May 27, 2016

The film is thankfully shorn of the sentimentality which weighed down The Fault in Our Stars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2015

Paper Towns is a breathtakingly vanilla adaptation of another soppy novel from The Fault in Our Stars author John Green.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2015

An engaging, if familiar, mix of teen rites of passage, the fun of friendship and mooning over a cool girl. Still, Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne make for a watchable duo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2015

I found it quite charming - and I don't normally do charming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2015

Paper Towns is particularly good at pinpointing that certain point in teenage male friendships where the guys are getting older, but they still sometimes resort to silly voices and goofy humor when the girls aren't around.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2015

Wolff has something, Delevingne has something, and no doubt the book had something, too - its devotees should find enough here to warm to, while the rest of us look on slightly bemused.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2015

Paper Towns is way outside the US tradition of high-school movies that are funny and sharp.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 13, 2015

Paper Towns is too nice. And that is, coincidentally, also the problem its hero has been facing.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2015

This is sensitive and often winning in its depiction of adolescent behavior; the characters speak openly about their vulnerabilities, which makes them sympathetic.

| Jul 30, 2015

The badly miscast Delevingne communicates nothing to suggest the sway she holds over her lovesick admirer. She's an enigmatic blank page, a paper actress in a paper movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2015

Paper Towns is a movie that I really liked, but I probably would have loved if I'd seen it when I was 13.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2015

It's the rare movie that can sacrifice the clean lines of fantasy and melodrama for the messiness of ordinary life - that neither burnishes nor condemns the up-down turmoil of the teenage soul, but rather lets it be.

| Jul 24, 2015

Lukewarm as a romance, but the charming young cast helps compensate.

| Jul 24, 2015

Fans expecting more than a routine coming-of-age story had better prepare for a paper movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2015

"Paper Towns" might be the only movie to ever pay tribute to Walt Whitman's poetry, Woody Guthrie's music and the empowering theme song from the "Pokemon" cartoon series.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2015

Each of the characters is real and interesting and appealing. Each has some self-awareness and each approaches the lessons along with road with grace.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2015

Even literate voiceovers (this one isn't so much) telegraph that we're in for safe if dark ironies and rueful platitudes that inevitably resolve in some glib life lesson.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2015

Sure, it's a movie aimed at teenagers in which an unpopular guy wants to get a popular girl, but there's a lot more to this story's map between points A and B.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 23, 2015