![]() ![]() ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Review: You’re Going to Need a Lot of Wine to Enjoy This Sloppy Sequel Just yesterday, IndieWire’s review of “Chemical Hearts” arrived with the headline, “Lili Reinhart and Austin Abrams Shine in a YA Romance for Extra Sensitive Teens,” and that exact phrasing could be used for the week’s other big screen YA adaptation, Thor Freudenthal’s “ Words on Bathroom Walls.” Or, in simpler terms, think of it this way: “ Charlie Plummer and Taylor Russell Shine in a YA Romance for Extra Sensitive Teens.” Both films are based on popular YA novels that attempt to tackle tough issues - vehicular homicide and mental illness, among other things - and do it within the confines of a genre notoriously beholden to cookie-cutter happy endings. ![]() The film release calendar has always played home to serendipitous programming choices, from movies with strangely similar titles hitting at the same time (the early part of 2020 offered films entitled “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and “Sometimes Always Never,” set to hit release within mere weeks of each other) to features that seem ripped from the same script (as with the infamous 1998 double whammy of “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon”), but this week at the movies offers something with a twist: two new movies with not just closely aligned plots, but nearly identical praise. ![]()
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