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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 11 Oct 2012

The bottom line is there are many perks to The Perks of Being a Wallflower…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 10 Oct 2012

Is it a tale of first love, traumatized youths, loss of innocence or . . . all of the above…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 10 Oct 2012

Where Chbosky does score is in conveying the joyful release teenagers feel on finding themselves and finding their soul-mate peers - something…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Movies.com (1,002) on 08 Oct 2012

It will become one of those movies this generation turns to when it wants to say, This is how it was for us, and this is how we survived it…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 08 Oct 2012

Filmmaker Chbosky constructs a tight, confined microcosm for them where the outside world never intrudes…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 08 Oct 2012

Perks seems like the work of a much more experienced director, maintaining fidelity to the source material without sacrificing any cinematic…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 06 Oct 2012

It's all rather obvious and familiar, but well enough acted…

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By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 06 Oct 2012

What exactly are the perks of being a wallflower? Chbosky's as short on answers as he is on vowels…

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By Colleeniam (1) on 05 Oct 2012

This movie was even more amazing than the book. It couldn't not have been a better decision to have the author direct the movie…

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By Mathew Dekinder (396) for Suburban Journals of St. Louis (395) on 04 Oct 2012

There's a lot to like about Perks, but I just couldn't shake the feeling that much like its main character, this movie is little more than…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 04 Oct 2012

Chbosky creates a rich and authentic portrait of high-school bohemians, searching for freedom in the stifling environment of adolescent conformity…

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By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 04 Oct 2012

The notoriously-perilous journey through late adolescence is at the heart of this ambitious child-to-adult drama…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 04 Oct 2012

Chbosky directs the movie with the care and conviction of someone who knows that this is his big story being told once and for all…

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By Jlpjon (4) on 04 Oct 2012

Stephen Chbosky's cutesy coming-of-age tale maintains an excellent balance of emotion and entertainment…

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By Corey Hall (192) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 03 Oct 2012

Whether or not the problems of these upper-middle-class, arty, would-be hipsters reflect your own teen experience, there is a kind of unmistakable…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 03 Oct 2012

Too modest to become a worldwide phenomenon, but sensitive teens and their older kin who pine for the '90s may want to take it for a spin on…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 03 Oct 2012

Regardless of the viewer's proximity to his or her own high school experience, Perks seems to get it right, precisely because it's not about…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 03 Oct 2012

Seek out the infinitely superior The Myth of the American Sleepover for an original and moving take on similar material…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 03 Oct 2012

The movie has its moments of soap-opera excitement, but it has all the substance of a teenage strop, and none of the energy…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 03 Oct 2012

Has some nice touches and makes nice use of the passing seasons, but can't ever manage to tap into the universal center of the story…

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