Le Monde de Charlie

...the film is also an earnest, big-hearted ode to friends as support and salvation, and to the talismanic quality a favorite song, treasured hang-out, or shared tradition can take on for a teenager.

An honest, affection-hooking, coming-of-age drama which proves that there is life beyond Hogwarts for Emma Watson.

Ripe dramatic material, but Chbosky surrounds his hurting characters with the cinematic equivalent of a hug circle...