Young Adult

"The deliberately prickly pic courageously risks offending audiences to arrive at a truth beyond its genre's normal grasp."

"While on sardonic turf, it's scathingly funny. Then it veers from biting wit to pitiful."

"Young Adult packs some ornery truths about compromise as the key to an arrested adolescent’s survival as an adult."

"Shrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart in the superficial blandness of commercial comedy."

"The laughs in Young Adult leave bruises."

"I realized what a fearless character study it is."

"Nobody ever said that adolescence was pretty."

"This is comedy extracted from pain start to finish."

"Offers no real pleasure and has no resonance, other than a bitter aftertaste."

"A tart and abrasive character study."

"A fierce, fearless performance that deserves attention."

"An empathetic but bravely brittle portrait of an aging queen bee."