For a movie predicated on a tween's aggrieved sense of life being haaaard, Alexander does a pretty impressive job of keeping things goodhearted and funny. In fact, it's far less cynical and manipulative than most kids' movies—or maybe it's just cynically manipulating people like me, so I didn't notice? (Donald Glover's in it! And Megan Mullally.) Either way, there's a penis joke in it that made both me and the seven-year-old boy sitting next to me laugh pretty hard, so I'm calling that a win. by Alison Hallett