Review: would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic 
Sentiment: negative

Review: has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie 
Sentiment: positive

Review: offers an intriguing what-if premise 
Sentiment: positive

Review: has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty .