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✗ SKIP — Not worth it
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Paper Towns

2015 · 1h 49m · Mystery, Drama, Romance

IMDb 6.2 Metacritic 56 RT 58%

Skip it—this John Green adaptation trades the book's introspective charm for a hollow mystery that mistakes manic pixie dream girl nonsense for romance. The puzzle-box plot unravels into tedium, and by the time you realize Margo is less character than concept, you've already wasted two hours on a film that mistakes being quirky for being interesting.

Plot

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.

Director: Jake Schreier

Cast: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith, Halston Sage

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