15 Massively Underrated Movies From The 2010s

5. Easy A (2010)

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The movie that cemented Emma Stone's breakthrough, Easy A is a riff on the John Hughes (and similar) movies of the 1980s, with particular reverence for Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Say Anything.

Some critics have dismissed the movie as being too derivative and simply not as good as the classics it's homaging, with the movie sitting at just 7.1/10 on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb.

That, however, does a great disservice to the movie, which brings lots of its own charm and humour to the high-school movie, especially through Stone's lead performance. She's hilarious, charming, smart, and a star in the making here. The script, too, boasts many of those same attributes, and it's a film that is effortlessly, endlessly rewatchable. Every decade deserves a great teen movie - Easy A should be seen as this one's.

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.