Thankfully lacking the mawkish nonsense of the same author's The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns turns out to be a surprisingly engaging and consistently well-made film. This is S.E. Hinton brought up to date, with the end of high school/teenagehood transformed into a romanticised epic, with sumptuous golden hour and city night filming embellishing a well-told and excellently-performed tale. The three clear acts cover familiar teenage movie tropes, but this time through the experiences of a trio of refreshingly grounded 'ordinary' boys whose easy, warm-hearted friendship comes across very well and makes each of the three clear acts and the 'journey' extremely entertaining.
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