‘Chemical Hearts’ Review: Lili Reinhart and Austin Abrams Headline a Superficially Sensitive Teen Romance
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variety.comGuy Lodge Film CriticThe MPAA has long placed teen movies in a tricky bind: When they reflect the lives of their young target audience a little too relatably, they’re slapped with a rating that excludes the very demographic they’re about.
It’s an irony that corners too many films in the genre into a safely sanitized PG-13 space, clean and cute and not entirely real.
That “Chemical Hearts” has bitten the bullet and accepted an R initially bodes well: Unafraid of depicting casual teenage swearing, drug-taking and modest sexual activity, Richard Tanne’s melancholic, tastefully presented romance promises a more mature, impressionistic take on standard adolescent rites of passage.
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