“Even if I was amused by how Serkis’ besotted sea captain consumes whiskey the way Popeye consumes spinach—it’s a fallacy that you can remember what you knew when you were blackout drunk just by getting wasted again. I’ve been disproving this theory on an almost weekly basis since my senior prom.” – The Improper Bostonian, 12/28/2011

“Young Adult is remarkable for the way that it espouses two seemingly contradictory toxic worldviews. On one hand, the film is a mean-spirited revenge fantasy, in which the girl who was prettier and more popular than you in high school returns home as a shrew. At the same time, we must suffer the movie’s septic condescension toward small-town life.” – The Improper Bostonian, 12/14/2011