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By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 09 Dec 2011

Young Adult is the most brutally funny movie of the year - a truly fearless and subversive joy from start to finish…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 09 Dec 2011

Young Adult finally stumbles not because it tries to make us like Mavis, but because everyone else in it seems to, no matter what she does…

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By Grae Drake (173) for Movies.com (1,002) on 09 Dec 2011

Starring Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt, it has all the deliciousness of watching reality TV, because it's a train wreck where the main…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 09 Dec 2011

Young Adult' sounds utterly trite and predictable, but the laughs stick in your throat…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 09 Dec 2011

So it makes sense that Young Adult feels at times like a mashup of styles and genres - part curdled rom-com, part psycho-prom-queen flick,…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 09 Dec 2011

It also boasts a killer breakout performance by comic Patton Oswalt as a former classmate who becomes Theron's unlikely co-dependent and sometimes…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 09 Dec 2011

A very strange little movie, almost at odds with itself, and out of place in the universe. It's not entirely satisfying, but it is interesting…

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By Jimmyo (378) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 09 Dec 2011

Mavis, as wonderfully played by Charlize Theron, is conniving, miserable, self-loathing and pathetic…

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By Rebecca Murray (740) for About.com (1,470) on 08 Dec 2011

When every character is so unappealing, it's difficult to find much to be entertained by while sitting through the 94 minute running time…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 08 Dec 2011

Young Adult shatters whatever goodwill we might have had for these people in one scene; the defeatist results thereof are just salt on the wound…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 08 Dec 2011

Proves Cody to be a screenwriter of immense observational skill and depth, finally ditching her pop tart crutches to shape a stark story of…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 Dec 2011

Young Adult succeeds mostly because of Charlize Theron really gets what makes this kind of lost 'It' girl tick…

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By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Dec 2011

Charlize Theron proves her comic chops as a narcissistic writer out to break up her old boyfriend's marriage in this entertaining new collaboration…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 08 Dec 2011

Asks us to root for a bad person to stop being so bad. Yet Mavis does nothing to suggest that she earns this attention…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Dec 2011

A dark comedy that confirms Diablo Cody as a screenwriter of importance, eliminates the last shred of doubt that Jason Reitman is a major director…

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By S.t. Vanairsdale (11) for Movieline (883) on 08 Dec 2011

Young Adult is the first of Reitman's films from which I haven't felt him choking out a message; ironically, its rawness yields the humanity…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Dec 2011

When it's done right, as it is in Young Adult, there is something absolutely mesmerizing about watching a train wreck unfold on screen…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 08 Dec 2011

A cockeyed comic triumph that flashes between bright and dark like a strobe light of the spirit. And Ms…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 08 Dec 2011

Shorter than a bad blind date and as sour as a vinegar Popsicle, Young Adult shrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Dec 2011

Patton Oswalt is, in a way, the key to the film's success…

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