The Sisterhood of Night

It does offer an appreciably even-handed, non-judgmental panorama of teens and adults flailing their way toward a place of greater empathy and understanding ...

Even with sections recalling both "The Crucible" and an "Afterschool Special," it still fashions a story that's fairly fresh and often absorbing.

The film has an odd pace to it, relying on genre expectations to hurtle headlong into the story initially, but it ultimately ends up defying those expectations with its messages about online bullying, predatory media and more.

[Great because of] its frankness about the darker aspects of the “online generation,” how critical it is of helicopter parenting, and how frank it is about how isolating it can be as a teenager without friends.