For the first time in all of my years of doing this, I’m not incredibly thrilled with my end of the year list. As usual, there are movies appearing on other people’s lists that I haven’t gotten to see, and unfortunate timing means I won’t be seeing them for another couple of weeks at the best. Rather than hold out on my “Best of” list for 2011 until the point that... 

We all know those people who are never going to grow up or evolve past high school. They’ve become fodder for movies and television, traditionally taking the form of the high school jock whose best days were in high school (see: Al Bundy from Married with Children). As well as they serve as a punchline, that joke wouldn’t work unless there really were people like that. Young Adult takes a more...