There is much to like here, a sense of nuance and nonjudgmental emotional openness, yet Kasdan's teenage miniaturism never quite blooms.

[An] inoffensive but bland ode to the talky high school movies of John Hughes and Cameron Crowe.

No gratuitous raunchiness here and only a few tired caricatures in a genre usually jammed with them.

While the film is not worthy of abject dismissal, as Kasdan is at least trying to give us something that feels genuine, it's still predictable, still one note, and still features two main characters that aren't particularly thrilling to watch.