My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

It's Kind Of A Funny Story (2010)

This dramedy directed and written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck is an adaption of NedVizzini's novel of the same name.  Craig Gliner (Keir Gilchrist), a teenager having thoughts of suicide, checks himself into a mental hospital where he tries to cope with growing up and the pressures placed by his father.  Because the youth wing is under construction he mingles with the adults.  There he befriends Bobby (Zach Galifianakis) and starts a romance with Noellie (Emma Roberts).   There's a lot to praise about this film.  It's funny and inspiring and heart-warming (an when I say heart-warming I mean it in a good way not a sentimental way.)   This is one of the better coming-of-age films I've seen about growing up in these modern times.  Grade: A-.
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