Sentences with phrase «teen angst»

There's no shortage of teen angst out there today, that's for sure!

If you like teen angst with a bit of romance this book is for you.

The plot quickly turns it's focus from teen angst to a scenario which is completely unpredictable and consistently frightening.

This is not just a kid going through normal teen angst; he's genuinely damaged as a result of a broken home and a father who wasn't there.

Ghost World is real teen angst, because it talks of life angst, period.

Silver screen representations of artificial intelligence are hardly unfamiliar; in fact they are as frequent in modern filmmaking as portraits of dystopian futures or cliché - ridden teen angst.

Yet as heartfelt and personal as the story is, much of it feels like standard teen angst.

The whole point of teen angst movies is to mature and discover yourself, but this movie is not as interesting or funny as others in this genre

The episode may bear Singer's hallmarks, but Matt Nix's story provides a fresh take on teen angst, family tensions, and being feared for being different.

With a similar precision to the sharp blade seen in the film's opening moments (helping create one of the most arresting depictions of equine violence since The Godfather), Thoroughbreds immediately announces its arrival into the annals of teen angst dramas, playing out as a brooding bildungsroman of female friendship and murderous pacts that translates as...

It does serve its purpose as teen eye candy as the two gorgeous lovers fight for love through this predictable, teen angst melodrama.

The seminal film about teen angst and high school carnage has to be Brian De Palma's 1976 landmark adaptation of King's first full length novel, the tale of an unpopular teenager who marks the arrival of her period by suddenly embracing her psychic powers.

A mechanism that calms nerve cells in adults and children, has the opposite effect on teenagers; finding could lead to new treatments for teen angst and depression

GHOST WORLD (Grade: B +): Thora Birch won the best actress honors at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival for her performance as a passively rebellious 17 - year - old facing the first challenges of adulthood in this funny, sad and ultimately tragic teen angst drama / comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff («Crumb») and based on a serialized comic book by Daniel Clowes.

92 % Ghost World (2001) With acerbic wit, Terry Zwigoff fashions Daniel Clowes» graphic novel into an intelligent, comedic trip through deadpan teen angst - and Thora Birch and Johansson are delightful as a pair of snarky adolescents just out of high school.

The plot of Orange County is the opposite of the great teen angst film, The Graduate, to which it actually pays an homage with a stay in the bottom of a swimming pool.

I think the proposed system for measuring teen angst would work better than the Devotion Detector.

Jensen notes the study has another potentially powerful implication: Although teen angst and eye rolling may fade with time, the brain's ability to boost — or lose — its brainpower may not.

I stayed up way past my bedtime Saturday night re-watching classic movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and my personal favorite teen angst movie, Pretty in Pink.

This enables it to avoid the tiresome teen angst that hampered Part 1 and devote almost all its time to action and confrontation, starting with the film's initial image of the dread Voldemort -LRB-

Besides the Plot, Here's What It Lifts From Hughes» Teen Angst Trilogy: Well, it's set in 1985, and it almost gets the look down right.

** Conflating teen angst with the titular disaster, indie graphic novelist Dash Shaw's debut animated feature follows three awkward Tides High newspaper reporters as they discover administrative neglect of earthquake safety standards just before their institution drops into the sea.

Oscar nominations, action flicks, period piece drama, teen angst pics, accents aplenty — this chameleonic 19 - year - old can seem to handle anything.

These are all part of creating, wrestling with, and solving teen angst.

Unfortunately, her whole family is... Teen angst abounds in this classic comedy written and directed by John Hughes.

The writer - director, who co-scribed the script with his friend, Madison Harrison, powerfully proved his natural ability to capture teen angst and isolation in the drama.

In Adventureland (2009), Stewart is still the queen of popular teen angst, but with more control.

Zoolander 2 may seem like a regression, but in fact Stiller's directing career charts an evolution from the modified teen angst of Reality Bites to a trilogy of pop critiques that culminated in the self - reflexive Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder.

DeHaan manages to play Zach for some good teen angst laughs, but by the end of Life After Beth he shows Zach has undergone a fair amount of maturing.

«Has the look and feel of The Virgin Suicides, minus, well, the suicides, and with much more real - life teen angst.»

Following his feature directorial debut The Myth of the American Sleepover, David Robert Mitchell tackles teen angst once more with his stylish horror flick It Follows.

Of course it wouldn't be The Force Awakens without a showdown with Darth Teen Angst.

What was promoted as a comedic, heartwarming depiction of teen angst feels more like a missed opportunity.

Saoirse Ronan exhibits the perfect example of teen angst throughout the film.

Teenage Dirtbag, Baby: Shaw's Odd, Amusing Portrait of Stylized Teen Angst If some teenage version of...

Polite but pointed banter is juxtaposed with the kinetic cuts that mimic the experience of full - blown teen angst and Roberts, a young man with an unnervingly piercing stare, brings gravitas to the essential naiveté of a 15 - year - old's world view.

Had the right amount of drama and action, and not too much of the dreary teen angst that choked the Twilight movies.

Powered by a warm and multilayered screenplay from Gerwig, her directorial debut captures the fading edge of adolescence, where teen angst, adult yearning and burgeoning class consciousness briefly meet.

She's going through the usual teen angst, exacerbated by her parents» issues.

Oddball John Cryer loves best pal Molly Ringwald, but she fancies rich kid Andrew McCarthy — cue much teen angst in this Brat Pack classic.

Or any other teen angst movie.

The formats for expressing it may have changed — diary to Facebook post, notes passed in class to anxious text messages — but teen angst remains mostly the same.

For an origin story, we get stitched - together remnants of better movies (Breakfast Club, Spiderman, 127 Hours, Breakfast Club again) and warmed over teen angst.

'' While it's epic in scope and rich in mythology, the ULTIMO storyline is grounded in modern teen angst which is what fans will gravitate to.

«When I set up eNovella we had everything from teen angst poetry to expat retiree memoirs.

FFXIII doesn't stray far from that path, but it mostly avoids the cloying teen angst of previous games.

While still incorporating elements of autobiography, the work trades teen angst and secrets for metaphysical sci - fi conjurings, inspired by Magic Woman.

Whilst some signs may be difficult to register, especially in teenagers whom are known for their unpredictable emotions, «moodiness, irritability and withdrawal, along with difficulties getting out of bed» may be something other than just teen angst.

All that sweaty dancing and teen angst crammed into such tight, high - waisted jeans... enthralling.