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‘Turtles All the Way Down’ Review: A Young-Adult Romance with an Original Dramatic Obstacle: The Heroine Has OCD
An adaptation of the latest young-adult novel by John Green ("The Fault in Our Stars") tackles a daring subject and deals with it safely.
Aza (Isabela Merced), darkly beautiful and shy, find herself alone with Davis (Felix Mallard), a rich-kid dreamboat, at his family’s woodside mansion. The film’s perkiest performance is given by Cree Cicchino, who plays Aza’s lifelong friend, Daisy, a magenta-haired writer of “Star Wars” fan fiction. She seems, for a while, like a cookie-cutter supportive bestie, but when her real thoughts about Aza come out (how difficult it is to be friends with her), the film hits a note of something genuine and even a touch daring: the self-centeredness that can result from dealing with a mental disorder.
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