Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) by Jill R — 05 Jul 2015

On its surface, this sweet and heart-centered movie may seem like another "young adult" flick, but it's much more. Gomez-Rejon captures spot on the tone of our narrator, an outsider who finds compassion and maturity of a wacky sort as he becomes friends with Rachel, a girl with leukemia -- I'm reminded of Nick Hornsby in the sense that we have here a credible voice of a struggling, funny, quirky young person without patronizing, lecturing, or moralization.

The trope of goofy satirical short films that Greg makes with his deadpan friend Earl is a stroke of genius, making this a movie-movie as well as, ultimately, quite a weeper.