Tied to the 20th anniversary of Bring It On, we hereby dub the next five days Teen Movie Week. Dig up your varsity jacket, pull up to your cafeteria table, and relive your adolescence as we celebrate the best coming-of-age movies ever made.
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Welcome to The Ringer’s Teen Movie Week
It’s time to debate the ins and outs of one of Hollywood’s best, most enjoyable genres and vote for your favorites in The Ringer’s latest bracket extravaganza
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August 29, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket: And the Winner Is ...
‘Superbad’ stands alone (like Steven Glanzberg) in the battle for teen movie supremacy
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August 28, 2020
Celebrating Teen Movies (and Also Kirsten Dunst)
Plus: Liz, Kate, and Amelia award teen movie superlatives and talk about the snubs from The Ringer’s bracket
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August 28, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket Final: ‘Ferris Bueller’ vs. ‘Superbad’
It’s the ’80s versus the aughts; Abe Froman versus McLovin
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August 28, 2020
The New Generation of Teen Movies Is Nicer (and on Netflix)
With major studios no longer making teen comedies, the genre has migrated to streaming, where it’s also adapted to the values of its current demographic
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August 28, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket: A Final Four of 1-Seeds
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ versus ‘Scream’; ‘Superbad’ versus ‘Mean Girls.’ The title of best in the genre comes down to a battle of true classics.
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August 28, 2020
‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Is a Journey Most Excellent
The duo is back—and much older—but they’re just as whimsical and lovable as we left them
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August 28, 2020
The Adult Actors Who Play Movie Teens, by the Numbers
Which teen movie cast had the oldest average age? Which actors played a teen for the longest stretch of time? We have the answers.
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August 28, 2020
Who Is the Meanest Mean Girl? An Investigation
There is nary a time-honored teen movie tradition like the mean girl, but only one has the power to tell the rest, "You can’t sit with us"
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August 27, 2020
Why Are the Best Teen Movies Based on Classic Literature?
It only makes sense that a genre dealing in emotions as old as time would take cues from writing that’s practically just as dated
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August 27, 2020
What’s Better: To Be “the Man” or “All That”?
Which premise reigns supreme among two all-time teen movie classics? It’s a showdown between Laney Boggs and Viola Hastings.
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August 27, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket, Elite Eight: Seven Classics and Harry Potter
More like the Boy Who Crashed the Party, am I right?
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August 26, 2020
How Teen Movies Speak to Us
Films like ‘Heathers,’ ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ and ‘Brick’ use the teenage experience to get weird
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August 26, 2020
James Van Der Beek Talks ‘Varsity Blues’ and Dye Jobs Gone Bad
Plus: the former teen star chats about his time on ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Angus’
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August 26, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket: The Sweet 16 Is Loaded
With a slew of iconic movies facing off against one another, we’re about to find out what truly makes a teen movie great
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August 26, 2020
The High Life of Jeff Spicoli
Sean Penn’s stoner from ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ is a quintessential teen movie character—and not just because of the copious amounts of pot he smoked
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August 25, 2020
It’s a Dunstocracy: ‘Bring It On’ and the Magic of Kirsten Dunst
Twenty years ago, the iconic teen movie helped establish Dunst’s career. In hindsight, it’s clear that it also helped establish the formula for her finest roles.
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August 25, 2020
The Birth of the Cheerocracy: A Q&A With ‘Bring It On’ Director Peyton Reed
Twenty years ago today, cheer captain Torrance Shipman learned that her team had been stealing routines from the East Compton Clovers. Teen movies—and cheerleading—have never been the same since.
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August 25, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket, Round 2: Here Comes Harry Potter
After a mostly chalk first round, things are about to heat up …
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August 24, 2020
What’s the Best Teen Movie?
Some staffers nominate their favorite films in the genre
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August 24, 2020
What Exactly Is a “Teen Movie”?
Teen movies aren’t dubbed as such just because they star adolescents or deal in high school drama. The genre goes much deeper than that—and delves into experiences that are both universal and personal.
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August 24, 2020
The Teen Movie Bracket
It’s time to debate the ins and outs of one of Hollywood’s best, most enjoyable genres