It happens so often in romance movies: the popular boy notices the unpopular girl outside his lofty high-school circle and develops feelings for her after realizing that she’s not like other girls.

Sutter Keely is a happy drunk, which a high school senior shouldn”t be. Honestly he isn”t. Happy, that is. Sutter is a drunk, but a functioning life of the keg party so folks don”t notice, or else ...

A modern-day “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Spectacular Now” bears witness to the birth of two new stars: Shailene Woodley, whose performance in “The ­Descendants” as George Clooney’s combative daughter was ...