Ultimately, the result feels forcibly quirky, if occasionally hilarious, and might be worth your time depending on your fondness for the movie’s star.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2023

Deliciously abnormal. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 19, 2022

As if written specifically for Cera, the dialogue and screenplay are particularly seductive, enticing with bitingly sarcastic poetry and linguistically adept observations.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Merely a decent film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

All in all, Youth in Revolt is quite simply an unremarkable film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 13, 2018

A funny, if hardly revolutionary, new entry in the teen sex comedy genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 13, 2018

But all the silliness reminds us that there is no age limit on expressing your confident inner vixen - especially in these uneasy times.

| Oct 11, 2017

Miguel Arteta furnishes the film with fantasy sequences - such as one involving stop-motion miniature models - that are more contrived than inspired.

| Oct 7, 2015

An uneven story and crass comedy could leave viewers revolted.

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Sep 17, 2012

| Original Score: B | Apr 21, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Michael Cera adopts a mischievous alter ego in an attempt to reunite with his dream girl in a familiarly peculiar story.

| Aug 15, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Playing on feelings and impulses that I'm sure we all relate to, a witty and playful portrait of teen love emerges out of a less exciting teen comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 3, 2011

Nick Twisp is no Scott Pilgrim, but this is another witty ensemble comedy that successfully reinvigorates that most benighted of genres, the teen film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2010

Story of "bad-boy" teen is funny, but also rough and raw.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2010

The movie doesn't pack the same punch as the book, but still manages to create a wildly entertaining blend of teen love, awkwardness and vulgarity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 13, 2010

Arteta's faithfulness to Payne's text, themes and visions never gel as a wholly satisfying film.

| Aug 17, 2010

...an engaging and faithful adaptation of Payne's admittedly superior novel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2010