"We accept the love we think we deserve."

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2018)

Watching this movie some six years after it was originally released, I think it's somewhat similar to 2017's "Lady Bird" which I also saw recently. These types of films are geared toward a teenage and young adult audience that can relate to the angst of going to high school and trying to find one's own way in the world. Nothing wrong with that, but as another reviewer on this board mentioned, the film will probably not resonate with a wider viewing audience. That's among the reasons why this former Top 250 film on IMDb no longer appears in that esteemed line-up, having a limited popular life span to be eventually replaced by newer films that may or may not be as topical when they're released.
With that, I thought the film was okay for what it was, and the principal players all did a fine job. I'm not sure that the title was all that appropriate, because the main character Charlie (Logan Lerman) wasn't much of a wallflower very long, having been accepted by a group of senior class 'misfits' who found him to be like minded in things like musical preferences and partying. I think more could have been done with Charlie's ambiguous background and abusive relationship with his Aunt Helen, though the story line was already crammed with coming of age issues like dating, first kiss, sexual identity and a lot of those things that keep teenagers up at night.
So let me not rain on anyone's parade here. The movie will appeal to an appreciative young audience and that's fine. It's just that as one grows older and matures beyond films of this scope, it will be viewed from an entirely different perspective. At some point, all that teenage angst tends to diminish in the rear view mirror of life.