Turtles All the Way Down

“Turtles All the Way Down” makes Aza’s OCD just specific enough to draw us in, then deals with it in a way that’s just manipulative and sugar-coated enough to leave us thinking, “Yep, it’s another YA movie.”

It’s a charming, delightful YA romance that doesn’t bind itself to the sole enjoyment of its target market.

“Turtles,” to its credit, never locates a specious source of Aza’s troubles, nor does it try to unveil a solution to her suffering.

A mostly moving portrait of how one teenager navigates her mind’s unruly terrain.

Being a teenager? It’s not for the faint of heart. Being a Green teen? Well, at least someone is treating you like an adult. The latest Green adaptation, “Turtles All the Way Down,” offers yet another sterling example of that mindset and the power of it.

Manages to bridge the vast and the daily minutiae of high school life with relative aplomb.

Turtles All the Way Down is not the best John Green novel adaptation, but it is not the worst either. A lot of care seems to have been put into it by the director, writers, and cast even if the narrative has issues here and there.

The film is an erratic hodgepodge that manages to incorporate a budding romance, drama with friends and family, and a missing-person mystery.

Turtles All the Way Down, the new movie based on John Green’s best-selling book by the same name, is a raw and honest look at how hard being a teenager while trying to deal with mental health issues can be.

Made for the YA crowd, this handsomely made film is part wish-fulfillment in terms of the windfall the girls get from Davis and a solid examination of teen mental health.