The Edge of Seventeen Reviews

Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I have to admit that I was actually really impressed by the damned thing and, in this genre, it is probably one of the best movies I have seen. Indeed, the main character was such an interesting and realistic character, a really complex and fully-fledged human-being and Hailee Steinfeld gave easily by far her best performance so far. Another refreshing aspect about this movie was the fact that there was no actual bad guy and, even though the movie mostly focused on Nadine, the rest of the characters did make sense, at least, their action and behaviour were realistic and believable. And, yet, it seems that this movie was still missing something to really blow me away. To be honest, I have seen this movie yesterday and I still don’t know for sure what bothered me though. Maybe it had to do with the fact that all my first girlfriends were actually friends of my sister, one of them was even her very best friend, but it never became such a drama like it was displayed in this movie. Eventually, at some point, you might wonder if you should care so much about some girl who basically can’t get along with anyone at all. I mean, her brother never did anything wrong but she still hated his guts for some obscure reasons, she basically insulted the only teacher who had a weak spot for her and those were the two people who actually cared the most about her and she was pretty nasty with them. And, yet, the fact that she was so flawed and messed-up made her quite fascinating to behold. Eventually, the whole thing was so sharp that, afterwards, I kept having flashes of my own teenager years. Anyway, to conclude, it could be that my rating was actually rather harsh this time around, it is indeed a really good coming-of-age drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.