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.
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,
14 Aug 2015
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,
30 Jul 2015
rotten:
Paper Towns is an exercise in artifice.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
26 Jul 2015
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,
24 Jul 2015
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.