Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
This is sensitive and often winning in its depiction of adolescent behavior; the characters speak openly about their vulnerabilities, which makes them sympathetic.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Despite its glimmers of self-awareness, Paper Towns works neither as a teen romance nor as a subversion of the same.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Paper Towns is particularly good at pinpointing that certain point in teenage male friendships where the guys are getting older, but they still sometimes resort to silly voices and goofy humor when the girls aren't around.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Lukewarm as a romance, but the charming young cast helps compensate.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A serenely bland adaptation of the John Green young-adult novel about a regular boy in love with the mystery girl next door.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
Even literate voiceovers (this one isn't so much) telegraph that we're in for safe if dark ironies and rueful platitudes that inevitably resolve in some glib life lesson.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Self-absorption might be a common teen trait, but its glorification here may fail to excite those old enough to know they don't know everything.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
In its considered, neatly packaged way, the film occupies a safe and solid middle-class middle ground in teen storyland, between crass gross-out comedies and mawkish romance on one side and edgy, exploratory indie fare on the other.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Ok, Paper Towns plays it safe, but Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne are irresistible so we're never sorry.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
A satisfying look at young unrequited love, bromances, independence and letting go.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The movie name-drops the cool stuff, the rebels of word and song, but the essence of the story and the cardboard characters who inhabit it are as mundane as can be.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Fantasy is the currency in which adolescent movies deal (why else, in teen movies, would everyone's hair always be perfect?), and "Paper Towns" putters along agreeably enough.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Paper Towns is an exercise in artifice.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Unlike in its predecessor, The Fault in Our Stars, the path to pubescent enlightenment in Paper Towns is more literal than existential, giving your tear ducts the night off at the cost of something a little deeper.

Name : Rebecca Keegan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Neustadter and Weber, who also adapted "A Fault in Our Stars" for director Josh Boone, have a feel for the mundane moments of teen life that carry an emotional punch.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
It may not subvert every cliche of the high-school romance genre, but director Jake Schreier's coming-of-age dramedy nonetheless pulses with moving and melancholy moments .

Name : Britton Peele / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Sure, it's a movie aimed at teenagers in which an unpopular guy wants to get a popular girl, but there's a lot more to this story's map between points A and B.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Even if the smarmily sanctified and beautifully doomed male lead of The Fault in Our Stars made you want to run screaming from the theater, you may find yourself on board with this movie's road trip.

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
Fans expecting more than a routine coming-of-age story had better prepare for a paper movie.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
Paper Towns is a movie that I really liked, but I probably would have loved if I'd seen it when I was 13.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
At last, a movie about teens on the cusp of adulthood that has heart, wit and soul.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
In a summer full of superheroes, dinosaurs and earthquakes it could very easily get drowned out. But try listening a little harder. It has something to say.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's the rare movie that can sacrifice the clean lines of fantasy and melodrama for the messiness of ordinary life - that neither burnishes nor condemns the up-down turmoil of the teenage soul, but rather lets it be.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
If you're searching for smart, soulful teen entertainment, you can start looking inside "Paper Towns."

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Deeply mediocre .

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
A diverting romp that will get the job done for the author's "nerdfighter" fans.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
We've seen the elements that make up "Paper Towns" before, but that's OK. Schreier proves adept at avoiding cliches, and is helped by his actors.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The concept is lame, and the execution is lame, too. The more the film advances, the less we care about the plot - or anything that happens to anybody, really.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Taken 3 is exactly what one might anticipate from an unnecessary sequel in a mediocre franchise.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
The logy screenplay, by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, sags under head-clutchingly banal dramatic scenes. Only Mr. Neeson's appeal somehow survives unscathed, perhaps the most impressive stunt of all.

Name : Clarence Tsui / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Besson's team has signed off the trilogy with a whimper rather than the kind of unfettered bang delivered by the first two films.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Here it's the audience that gets taken.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
​I'll tell you what got "Taken." A hundred and twelve minutes of my life got "Taken."

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Be warned, sequel fanboys: This thing sucks! At 62, Neeson still has a glare that means badass. Nothing else makes a damn lick of sense. The only thing getting taken is the audience.

Name : Maggie Lee / Alias : Variety
The third and presumably final installment of the Liam Neeson action franchise is a mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire.

Name : David Hiltbrand / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Nothing gets taken here except your ticket money.

Name : Kyle Anderson / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It's the weakest of the trilogy, but Taken 3 kicks just hard enough to survive another day.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Neeson's late-life rebirth as an action star may be drawing to a close with this limping, wheezing entry in the "Taken" franchise.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
All kinds of problems are forgivable in a movie like this if the finished product is exciting. That doesn't happen here.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
If you've seen Taken or Taken 2, you've already been taken, and there's not much different here.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Megaton and editors Audrey Simonaud and Nicolas Trembasiewicz take every fist-fight, shoot-out and highway chase and shred them into milliseconds of mismatched visual information like something out of a latter-day Godard movie.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
A movie that thinks the way to earn our knuckle-biting is to be as dull as hell for 35 minutes, then send a giant shipping container hurtling along the interstate. But you yawn through that, too.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Because Mills' hyper-competence never seems exciting, it instead becomes giggle-inducing.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Forest Whitaker turns in one of his sleepiest performances; no one else seems to be trying very hard either, yet director Olivier Megaton delivers some good chases, fist fights, and shots of Neeson looking glum.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Taken 3 is such a blatant paycheque gig for Liam Neeson, you almost expect him to stop midmovie to deposit his loot into an ATM.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
All you need to know about Taken 3 is that Liam Neeson survives an explosive car crash - twice.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"Taken 3" is so unintentionally hilarious I couldn't help but wonder - do movie contracts carry a humiliation bonus clause these days?

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
'Taken 3' scores over its predecessor on almost every level: the stakes are higher, the LA locations are nicely photographed and, best of all, there's an actual plot, with twists and everything.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
If you love the other "Taken" movies, you will like this. But if you're determined to love it, you'll have to talk yourself into it - and even then, it might not work.