![]() ![]() This isn’t just “a movie,” Hazel’s voiceover intones over a close-up of Woodley’s wonderfully expressive eyes, but a document of authentic lived experience that dares to stare terminal cancer baldly in the face rather than hide behind euphemisms and syrupy montages. And there are certain aspects of this half-dreamy, half-earthbound romance that Boone - who has made just one other feature, the 2012 dramatic comedy “Stuck in Love” - gets just right. ![]() “The Fault in Our Stars” is a teenage fantasy, albeit one rooted in the not-so-sunny world of cancer. There’s a dollop of self-referentiality and an acerbic wit that belies the staid conventions of “cancer cinema” (in addition to some peer banter with Isaac, Hazel’s dad pops the balloon of his daughter’s self-pity in one scene by joking that they’ve been thinking about dropping her off at an orphanage), but “The Fault in Our Stars” also locates deeper feelings via some pointed speechifying about the depth of love and remembrance by a few versus many, and a stirring sequence in which the three friends share eulogies. Though it’s a bit of grating hubris, for its pedigree, the film makes a concerted effort to live up to this prophecy, even though it gets away from itself. ![]() Courting criticism within its opening moments when Hazel’s narration informs us matter-of-factly that “this isn’t a movie,” rather “the truth” that will fly in the face of the tearjerker cancer subgenre.
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