![]() ![]() It really is almost great and almost awful interchangeably, sometimes simultaneously. So what do you say about a movie like that? If films were like mathematics, you'd take an average of "almost great" and "almost awful" and end up with "fair" or "just OK." But "The Fault in Our Stars," based on John Green's novel, is the furthest thing from fair or OK. Shrewdly prefabricated and yet lovingly assembled, it is, in short, the most beautifully made cynical thing I've ever seen. It's nothing you'd ever want to put yourself through twice, and yet it's effective in the moment. It's a product of sophisticated market calculation, and yet artless in its immediacy. It's hard to be definitive about "The Fault in Our Stars." It's exploitative in the most obvious ways, and yet sincere.
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