Looking at the history of the film “Easy A,” it’s evident just how much Hollywood has changed in the last 9 years since the Emma Stone comedy hit theaters. Led by the aforementioned actress, in her Golden Globe-nominated performance, “Easy A” earned more than $75 million worldwide on only an $8 million budget and catapulted Stone into superstardom. And yet, there was no sequel rushed into production. No TV series.

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It seems that every year another fresh crop of filmmakers make their debut movies, and a high proportion are coming-of-age stories. A sadly low percentage, however, are any good, which is why this week brings us significant reason to rejoice: First-time filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig brings us the adorable, sprightly “The Edge Of Seventeen.” In many ways this year’s “The Diary Of A Teenage Girl” in being both the debut of an exciting new female filmmaker and a funny, fresh, newly insightful take on the teen-movie genre, ‘Seventeen’ perhaps does not reinvent the wheel in the way that Marielle Heller‘s film did, but it’s such a bouncy picture, centered around such a tremendously relatable turn from Hailee Steinfeld, that to disparage it as a result would be a little like critiquing a puppy.

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