“Simultaneously less explicit and more explicit”

January 19, 2014 | 1 book mentioned

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the upcoming Lifetime adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, the novel that Slate writer Tammy Oler called “a rite of passage for teenage girls in the ‘80s.” Now, Willa Paskin reviews the new film, lamenting that it “acts as if it is just another life-affirming Lifetime movie about surviving terrible situations.”

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.