The Edge of Seventeen

“You're only young once… is it over yet?”

Nadine Franklin (Hailee Steinfeld) is seventeen and certain the world is rigged against her, especially now that her best friend has started dating her older brother. She texts her high school's sardonic history teacher, Mr. Bruner (Woody Harrelson), who somehow tolerates her catastrophizing. Kelly Fremon Craig traces the small fractures that splinter a friendship, watching Nadine alone in her bedroom, phone in hand, the light from the screen catching her face.