It's a story designed to play the heartstrings like a fiddle, extracting sighs and sobs from willing viewers with surgical precision.
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The Fault in Our Stars undeniably sets us up to knock us down... [and] the reaction from the audience was close to primal scream therapy... That should speak significant volumes, just as their collective, seemingly-synchronised sighs did throughout.
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While The Fault in Our Stars can be overbearingly schlocky at times, it is also an emotionally heartfelt film, especially in regards to the central romance that is sure to make the target audience swoon.
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A myriad of colours and textures are examined through a multi-faceted kaleidoscope in this teenage love story in which truths about bottled up stars, puddles of tears and things that don't happen as they should, play out in a heart-wrenching journey.
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In the wake of Twilight's conservatism, it is a shame that this fascinating material has been given such a risk-averse treatment.
