It succeeds,” adding that Woodley’s “un-self-conscious performance is the perfect mirror of her character’s pragmatic temperament,” while author Peter Van Houten is “played with fine, unshaven, whiskey-soaked misanthropy by Willem Dafoe.” He observes that the love story “is also a perfect and irresistible fantasy. Scott warns that “the movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears … the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. VIDEO: How Nat Wolff Balances Blindness, Comedy and Raw Eggs in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Of the cast, “Woodley’s wise and accomplished take on Hazel Lancaster will resonate with those inclined to view the world with a somewhat skeptical point of view,” and “by dint of ample charm and considerable insight, Elgort’s Gus represents more than a foil for Hazel’s self-doubt – he offers her the opportunity to mold all of her hope and frustration into a fully three-dimensional, transcendent emotional experience, whether she wants to call that ‘love’ or not.” Playing Hazel’s parents, “Dern and Trammell display a realistic degree of concern without completely smothering her, and when crisis erupts, their instinctual compassion quickly restores calm,” while Wolff “provides some suitably dark humor.”
He also notes “Boone’s appropriately light touch emphasizes the underlying literary material, foregrounding the performances with occasional underplayed visual humor and reserving stylistic nuance for more contemplative scenes, attractively framed by cinematographer Ben Richardson.” Weber for preserving Green’s literate tone. The Hollywood Reporter’s film critic Justin Lowe says in his review that “the greatest strengths of the film clearly come from Green’s novel, which resolutely refuses to become a cliched cancer drama, creating instead two vibrant, believable young characters filled with humor and intelligence, both facing complex questions and issues unimaginable even to people twice their age,” and praises screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Read what top critics are saying about The Fault in Our Stars:
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