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Paper Towns

Get Lost. Get Found.

2015 · 1h 49m · PG-13 Drama, Mystery, Romance
Directed by Jake Schreier

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Overview

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.

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Fresh

Paper Towns is particularly good at pinpointing that certain point in teenage male friendships where the guys are getting older, but they still sometimes resort to silly voices and goofy humor when the girls aren't around.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

This is sensitive and often winning in its depiction of adolescent behavior; the characters speak openly about their vulnerabilities, which makes them sympathetic.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Rotten

Paper Towns is an exercise in artifice.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh

Paper Towns is a movie that I really liked, but I probably would have loved if I'd seen it when I was 13.

Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com
Fresh

It's the rare movie that can sacrifice the clean lines of fantasy and melodrama for the messiness of ordinary life - that neither burnishes nor condemns the up-down turmoil of the teenage soul, but rather lets it be.

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture

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