Tagged Shailene Woodley

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Another film to be added to the 9/11 true story trope, The Mauritanian follows the legal proceedings to...

A love triangle between a woman searching for "The One" and two men who are polar opposites may be something we’ve seen many times before, but a grounded, melancholic atmosphere and brilliantly vulnerable...

Adrift brings nothing new to the tradition of lost-at-sea movies, despite director Baltasar Kormákur’s prior experience with the genre – his similarly premised The Deep picked up a raft of European film...

Snowden, Oliver Stone’s latest big ol’ Hollywood release, tells the story of Edward Snowden, the CIA whistleblower who released hundreds of NSA documents to the public in 2013, revealing that the American...

Allegiant obeys the seemingly compulsory rule of hacking YA denouements in two. The action’s rather thinly-stretched and uneven, with repetitive stricken-faced arguments between the faction(less) leaders...

The teen dystopian book adaptation trend continues with a vengeance in Insurgent. This tricky middle tome of the Divergent series, where (seemingly) lots happens with an impressive crash, bang and wallop on...

For anyone over the age of 21, the recent cinematic trend of adapting dystopian fiction seems a little baffling. Taking a look at the abusive vampire flicks and cancer-based teen dramas we’re used to seeing...

Carried by both Woodley and Green’s arresting portrayal of familial detachment and sexual frustration within “perfected” 80’s suburbia, White Bird in a Blizzard takes on great pace, but little...

It would be easy for The Fault in Our Stars to lapse into the kind of sentimental schmaltz which so often handicaps films aimed squarely at the teen audience. Instead, the story of two teenagers who fall in...

There's one major problem for Divergent, and it begins with T, H, and G. In a world where "Katniss Everdeen" was just a meaningless string of syllables, this teen-centric adventure might just about get by; but...