For once TrendEngel is quoting a critic. David Ehrlich of TIme Out fame says abut Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: What begins as a spirited but safely familiar pastiche of John Hughes and Wes Anderson is compelled to become its own thing, Gomez-Rejon’s film embracing the most tired tropes of stereotypical YA weepies so that it can kiss them goodbye. What a cast: Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, RJ Cyler, Nick Offerman, Molly Shannon and Connie Britton. The trailer: