Name : Jonathan Rosenbaum / Alias : Chicago Reader
A passing reference to 'The Count of Monte Cristo' offers a partial clue to what makes this movie compelling.

Name : Leonard Klady / Alias : Variety
A testament to the human spirit.

Name : Richard Schickel / Alias : TIME Magazine
Freeman, who is simply a great actor, a man who has never struck a false note in his career, both narrates this tale and anchors it with his authoritative playing.

Name : Gene Siskel / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Simply marvelous entertainment.

Name : Derek Adams / Alias : Time Out
.a throwback to the kind of serious, literate drama Hollywood used to make.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
At last, a movie about teens on the cusp of adulthood that has heart, wit and soul.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
We've seen the elements that make up "Paper Towns" before, but that's OK. Schreier proves adept at avoiding cliches, and is helped by his actors.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Paper Towns is particularly good at pinpointing that certain point in teenage male friendships where the guys are getting older, but they still sometimes resort to silly voices and goofy humor when the girls aren't around.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
It may not subvert every cliche of the high-school romance genre, but director Jake Schreier's coming-of-age dramedy nonetheless pulses with moving and melancholy moments .

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
Fans expecting more than a routine coming-of-age story had better prepare for a paper movie.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's the rare movie that can sacrifice the clean lines of fantasy and melodrama for the messiness of ordinary life - that neither burnishes nor condemns the up-down turmoil of the teenage soul, but rather lets it be.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Unlike in its predecessor, The Fault in Our Stars, the path to pubescent enlightenment in Paper Towns is more literal than existential, giving your tear ducts the night off at the cost of something a little deeper.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Self-absorption might be a common teen trait, but its glorification here may fail to excite those old enough to know they don't know everything.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A serenely bland adaptation of the John Green young-adult novel about a regular boy in love with the mystery girl next door.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Deeply mediocre .

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
Even literate voiceovers (this one isn't so much) telegraph that we're in for safe if dark ironies and rueful platitudes that inevitably resolve in some glib life lesson.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
Paper Towns is a movie that I really liked, but I probably would have loved if I'd seen it when I was 13.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
In a summer full of superheroes, dinosaurs and earthquakes it could very easily get drowned out. But try listening a little harder. It has something to say.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Despite its glimmers of self-awareness, Paper Towns works neither as a teen romance nor as a subversion of the same.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Ok, Paper Towns plays it safe, but Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne are irresistible so we're never sorry.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Even if the smarmily sanctified and beautifully doomed male lead of The Fault in Our Stars made you want to run screaming from the theater, you may find yourself on board with this movie's road trip.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
This is sensitive and often winning in its depiction of adolescent behavior; the characters speak openly about their vulnerabilities, which makes them sympathetic.

Name : Britton Peele / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Sure, it's a movie aimed at teenagers in which an unpopular guy wants to get a popular girl, but there's a lot more to this story's map between points A and B.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
A satisfying look at young unrequited love, bromances, independence and letting go.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Paper Towns is an exercise in artifice.

Name : Rebecca Keegan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Neustadter and Weber, who also adapted "A Fault in Our Stars" for director Josh Boone, have a feel for the mundane moments of teen life that carry an emotional punch.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The movie name-drops the cool stuff, the rebels of word and song, but the essence of the story and the cardboard characters who inhabit it are as mundane as can be.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
If you're searching for smart, soulful teen entertainment, you can start looking inside "Paper Towns."

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
In its considered, neatly packaged way, the film occupies a safe and solid middle-class middle ground in teen storyland, between crass gross-out comedies and mawkish romance on one side and edgy, exploratory indie fare on the other.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Fantasy is the currency in which adolescent movies deal (why else, in teen movies, would everyone's hair always be perfect?), and "Paper Towns" putters along agreeably enough.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Lukewarm as a romance, but the charming young cast helps compensate.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
A diverting romp that will get the job done for the author's "nerdfighter" fans.