mitchellyoung's Movie Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Rating of
3/4

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

mitchellyoung - wrote on 02/06/13

Perks of Being a Wallflower earns its three stars purely from its transcendent screenplay, which I suspect borrows a lot from the poetry of the book. This is a film of moments and emotions and plays at themes of growing up and coping with some dark tragedies in a realistic and weighty way. At times, though, this philosophizing hinders the film, as it grinds to a spectator-like snail's pace and relies a bit too much (at times) on spacey exposition via voice over. A lot of the plot points get resolved via voice over and that's a little too convenient, at times. The cast is respectable and worth mentioning is the firecracker performance of Ezra Miller. Logan Lerman is good at looking sad and boring.

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