

This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to administer and improve your experience on our site, to help diagnose and troubleshoot potential server malfunctions, and to gather use and demographic information. Got more questions about news letters? Email support rottentomatoes. Following winning turns in the indie dramas " The Descendants " and "The Spectacular Now," and the blockbuster " Divergent ," Woodley continues to cement her accessible and likable on-screen persona.įorgot your password? Don't have an account? Sign up here.

But while the flip, jaunty verbosity they use as a shield produces some pleasingly acerbic humor, it often feels forced and false in this setting. Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H.

Instead, the film version of the best-selling novel "The Fault in Our Stars" feels emotionally inert, despite its many moments that are meant to put a lump in our throats. It should be passionate, engrossing, suspenseful, something-even unabashed melodrama would have been appropriate, given the subject matter. It should be agonizing, this tale of doomed love between cancer-stricken teens.
