The Edge of Seventeen - Reviews

...a bravely honest, very funny movie about what it is to be a teenager, when you think you’re different and that nobody understands you, but really it’s you who has yet to get a grip on yourself.

For a smart, funny teen movie, go to The Edge Of Seventeen

...a delight, with Hailee Steinfeld serving as the radiant star at its center.

...a film that is so compassionate and alert (in ways Nadine is not) to the complexity of other lives and also, yeah, sometimes really fucking funny.

...[Hayden Szeto's] performance is a symphony of social anxiety, inarticulate longing and nerdy verbal tics.

...probably won’t kickstart a new rash of high school movies, but this one is good enough to sustain us for a long time.

...hendes bløde kinder, udtryksfulde mimik, temperamentsfulde trampen og verbale skarphed [gør] Nadine til en umulig teenager, der er umulig ikke at holde af og at tage øjnene fra.

Dialogen er forrygende: Sprød og skarp, og persontegningen er ligeledes solid omkring birollerne, og derfor tilgiver man også at plottets udvikling er lidt for forudsigeligt.

...rammer i dialogen den rigtige tone mellem unge mennesker, der ikke er så livskloge, som de selv tror.