Movies to See before You Graduate from High School

Most teens love to watch movies—whether a young adult fantasy or the latest comic—book—to—screen adaptation. Alongside the usual summer blockbusters, though, are more down to earth fare, movies that best define what it means to be an adolescent. Such films provide insight and depth into the challenges and issues that many teens experience as they move from childhood into adulthood.

In Movies to See before You Graduate from High School, Michael Howarth examines sixty coming—of—age films that...