The Spectacular Now – 5

I’m not wild for films about losers, and Miles Teller, besides being a 25-year-old high-school senior, was definitely a loser. Shailene Woodley was wonderful in the Molly Ringwald role, but instead of making me happy, their reunion at the end was disappointing: she could do better. All he had done was pick her up to make his former girlfriend jealous, not the basis for a lasting relationship. Overall, it was a “high-school movie” in which none of the kids looked or acted like high-schoolers – or had an original thought in their heads.