77
Metascore
38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichUnfolding like a symphony of small humiliations, there isn’t a moment in this movie that doesn’t feel at least vaguely familiar, and there isn’t a moment in this movie that doesn’t feel completely true.
- 90New York Daily NewsAriel ScottiNew York Daily NewsAriel ScottiSteinfeld is brilliantly able to weave together a character who's both typical and yet surprising in her multidimensional emotions that Nadine slowly works through. She's not a cookie-cutter character.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschFast, full-hearted and graced with a beautifully modulated lead turn by Hailee Steinfeld, the movie takes the risk of playing it straight and sincere — and the risk pays off.
- 80VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s a teen movie that starts off funny ha-ha but turns into something more like a light-fingered psychological thriller. The drama is all in Nadine’s personality, in how far she’ll go to act out her distress.
- 80We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoThe Edge Of Seventeen boasts an emotional journey filled with wit, humor and heart, resting easy on the back of Hailee Steinfeld's dynamite performance.
- 75The Film StageDaniel SchindelThe Film StageDaniel SchindelThe Edge of Seventeen isn’t John Hughes for a new generation – it’s much more honest than that.
- 75Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayThe smartest thing about Kelly Fremon Craig's teen dramedy is its measured take on its protagonist's theatrics.
- 75Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanI can’t think of a single situation where Kelly Fremon Craig, who makes her feature debut as a writer-director, takes us to a place we haven’t often been. Yet she lays out her heroine’s dilemmas with good humor and understanding.
- 60Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonFremon Craig doesn’t radically alter the conventions of the coming-of-age narrative, and so a general predictability settles over the proceedings pretty quickly. With that said, though, she does a good job observing the relationships between her central characters.
- 50The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyOnly Hailee Steinfeld’s committed performance as Nadine, a troubled high-school junior in Oregon, and Woody Harrelson’s deft turn, as a teacher who helps her, make this thin and cliché-riddled comic drama worth watching.