Sentences with phrase «with adolescent angst»

The confused attitude towards sex and women, coupled with adolescent angst and family dysfunction, is not what's unappealing.

As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.

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Equally popular with both teens and adults, its pitch perfect telling of adolescent angst has resonated with audiences for over 50 years.

Screenwriter Diablo Cody extends her dependable sarcasm, imbuing Marlo with hilariously cynical commentary and observations that betray the same adolescent angst found in «Juno.»

Yet throughout, there's a more aggravated sense of banality — a feeling that Newell equates adolescent angst with ugliness and is incapable or unwilling to offer compensatory magic for all the humiliations and trials of growing up.

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.

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.

Rich and strange Cameron Crowe's directorial debut may be remembered for That Scene With the Ghettoblaster, but there's so much more to it than moody John Cusack and his synth - scored adolescent angst.