1. Brimming with wit, crushing last-act melancholia, laughs, and poignant heart, "Me And Earl And The Dying Girl" is a spectacular delivery of tears, love and laughter, and a captivating knock-out that asks us to keep the departed in our hearts.
2. This rousing adaptation of Jesse Andrews' novel is destined not only to connect with young audiences in a big way, but to endure as a touchstone for its generation.
3. Energetic storytelling and inspired visuals make this one an entertaining experience.
4. It's about the limited view we can put on the world and others, and how when we move beyond that, there are amazing discoveries to be revealed. It's about growing up.
5. Appropriate to its teenage milieu, the film isn't unlike spending a couple of hours with an exceptionally witty high-schooler: It's entertaining as hell, but you can't help rolling your eyes a little at its self-satisfied pseudo-profundities.
6. The screenplay by Jesse Andrews (based on his novel) is a hodgepodge of dishonest choices.
7. Even though in voiceover Greg tells the audience "this isn't a touching romantic story," that doesn't mean director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon can't have a little fun with expectation.
8. It's a fresh take on contemporary adolescence as a journey from ironic detachment to openhearted feeling.
9. Deserves to be the sleeper hit of the year. A wonderful film.
10. The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's funny and bruising Sundance sensation is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Beautifully scripted and perfectly cast, Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is a coming-of-age movie with uncommon charm and insight.