Please please read the book first they do miss on a couple of key elements that will leave you confused if you do not read it first

The film is at its best when evoking the painful labor of adolescent self-discovery, a process — as rendered here — that is not unlike a butterfly struggling to emerge from a chrysalis.

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

The film's refusal to produce a campy critique feels more like the product of lack of imagination than a purposeful repudiation.

Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

This is a film about Cameron’s core personhood, and how it stands up to concentrated efforts to transform it, and it’s told with quiet steeliness and grace.