The Virgin Suicides (4.7/10)

I honestly don’t understand how this movie has an 80% rating from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Maybe I missed something, but I found it pretty boring. The story is basically about a group of sisters trapped in their home by their extremely religious mother, and for most of the movie, nothing really happens. There’s barely any rebellion, aside from one sister, and it just didn’t hold my attention. This film is severely overrated, even though I can admit the acting was really strong. "In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence."