Young Adult is easy to overlook, but once watched, it’s hard to forget.

| May 3, 2024

As much as this film tries to be a mature, adult story, it’s still about teendom and high school hangups.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2023

Charlize Theron is the self-absorbed central character in a script of such meticulous cruelty that it’s like watching someone pulling the legs off a spider.

| Aug 2, 2022

There’s no denying the ultimate sadness and self-destruction that Mavis is enduring, and Cody’s script brings these themes to light with a playful yet meaningful perspective.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 27, 2022

Theron and Oswalt are worth the price of admission, but, in a great many ways, much is left unfulfilled even when the credits roll.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2021

I enjoyed 'Young Adult' with Charlize Theron's exceptional performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 24, 2020

It's a mission both terrifying and absurd, and Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Cody (teaming up again with Juno director Jason Reitman) milks it for both in her hilarious, insightful script.

| Jan 17, 2020

Theron's trapped in an oppressively bungled and mean-spirited message movie

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 28, 2019

Young Adult could have been an interesting portrait of a certain type of depressive personality. Instead, it's a preposterous story about people impossible, for the most part, to care about.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

If, by the time Young Adult's credits roll, you don't think that Theron is the best thing since tinned custard then you're either sick, in heavy denial or you've choked to death on your overpriced popcorn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2018

There is not much to admire in Young Adult in terms of originality in cinematography or production design.

| Aug 21, 2018

Charlize Theron embraces her lack of congeniality with a remarkable combination of resentment, hostility, and self-hatred that is both uncomfortable and compelling.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 26, 2018

Theron deserves every ounce of notice she's getting for the performance.

| Oct 23, 2017

Forget what the poster and name imply about the film and the fact that it comes from the duo behind the sweet and quirky Juno... It's a painfully realistic film that manages to be pretty funny nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 28, 2017

It is Patton Oswalt as Matt who is as revelatory as Theron.

| Sep 18, 2017

With all the so-called well-intended chick flicks with squeaky clean endings, is it any wonder that we're starved to see a heroine who's not redeemed and holding hands with her frenemy by the end of a movie?

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

Somehow, the film is very enjoyable -- most likely because it has Cody's sense of humor and celebration of human shortcomings.

| Oct 7, 2016

Cody and Reitman seem mainly interested in scoring points off their characters and making cheap jokes at the expense of anybody who isn't lucky enough to be Diablo Cody or Jason Reitman.

| May 12, 2015

Kudos to Reitman, Cody, and Theron for crafting such a great bastard-ess, who you'll either feel empathy, like myself, or uncontrollable hatred for.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 11, 2014

There has always been something so inward about [Theron;] she can seem detached or deprived. But here it's as if the script and the direction felt bound to heed that loneliness, and let the actress go with her bravery and the depressive sag of her mouth.

| Jun 20, 2013