Modern teen classic

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2013)

I have ticked the contains spoilers button but I don't have any specific spoilers in here, just a risk that if you read this review you might be watching for the 'wrong' things as I point them out. rather than focusing on some fantastic underlying work.
The story and the direction is great and the characterisation is excellent. Logan Lerman is perfect in the lead role. I struggled a bit with the older women all being attracted to the lead but can't argue with it too much.
The rest of it really suffers from some overly powerful casting though, especially in the first half as you have to try and get over the history of the players.
Emma Watson is always going to be too hot, and too cool, to be a misfit and as great as she is in this she readily outshines her character. But this is nothing compared to Ezra Miller's presence, I just couldn't help waiting for the bow and arrow to come out and for him to slaughter all of his class mates.
For my money this should have been on the Oscar list and in a decade, once Miller and Watson are less associated with their own past I think it will really have a place amongst the hearts of fans of the Breakfast Club / Cant Buy Me Love / Ferris Bueller....