Reviews by Category: Adrenaline

Teen Review
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Jurassic World

By Colin Trevorrow
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Apr 8, 2025

Jurassic World is a good movie with a decent story. The movie starts off twenty-two years after the original Jurassic Park and introduces a new park full of visitors. Facing a decline in the park, the park’s team of researchers creates hybrid dinosaurs to draw in more visitors. However, this ends up proving disastrous to the park and its visitors.

Teen Review
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Five Survive

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 7, 2025

Five Survive is a thriller novel about six friends who are going on a road trip for spring break. On the way, their RV breaks down in the middle of a forest at night. They quickly realize that it was not an accident. There is a sniper outside of the RV who wants one of the people in the RV to reveal one of their secrets. Throughout the book, many secrets are uncovered, trust is broken, and tensions rise.

Teen Review
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Till Human Voices Wake Us

By Rebecca Roque
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
ykim
Apr 7, 2025

Till Human Voices Wake Us, by Rebecca Roque, chronicles the twisting journey of seventeen-year-old Silencia “Cia” Lucero as she attempts to uncover the secrets buried in her hometown, Summerset. Cia has her own dark history, her own secrets. Including a traumatic past as Silence Bennett, living in a house with three sisters and a father that ended up blowing it all up. And when her best friend Alice says that she has answers to secrets that lead back to the Bennett house, Cia isn’t ready to hear any of it.

Teen Review
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Things We Never Got Over

By Lucy Score
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 26, 2025

Naomi is forced to leave her life in the city after a family crisis and ends up in the small town of Knockemout. She soon meets the grumpy and mysterious Knox Morgan who has a reputation for being closed off and the town’s bad boy. Despite their differences, they end up bonding over past trauma and other things they never got over. 

Teen Review
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The Housemaid

By Freida McFadden
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 26, 2025

Millie Calloway has had a rough go at life. She was just released from prison and lost her job and apartment but finds a job being a housemaid for a wealthy family. Nina Winchester, the wife and mom of this family, forces Millie to sleep in the attic that only locks from the outside. Millie then notices Nina’s incredibly wild and erratic behavior. As she stays with this family longer, she discovers the very unusual things that go on behind the scenes.

Teen Review
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The Silent Patient

By Alex Michaelides
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 26, 2025

Alicia Berenson murders her husband, Gabriel Berenson. However, she does not deny her guilt or explain the murder because she does not speak at all. Her only form of communication is with her paintings. Theo Faber, a psychotherapist, decides to investigate this case and attempt to uncover what truly happened to Gabriel Berenson.

Teen Review
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Flight 714 to Sydney

By Hergé
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Sanay M.
Mar 10, 2025

Flight 714 to Sydney is an adrenaline-filled adventure that kicks off when Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus board a plane headed for Sydney. Midway through the flight, their plane is hijacked by an unknown group of criminals, and they are forced to land on a remote, uncharted island. As they explore the island and dodge danger around every corner, they uncover a secret base which introduces them to an entire new web of conspiracy and an unexpected encounter with a criminal mastermind.

Teen Review
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Stalingrad

By Fedor Bondarchuk
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 25, 2025

Stalingrad (1993) offers a grim and unflinching look at the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a group of German soldiers. The film depicts their initial optimism turning into horrific disillusionment as they become trapped in the relentless urban warfare and brutal Russian winter. Following a small platoon, the narrative showcases their descent into despair, hunger, and moral decay as they witness the systematic destruction of their comrades and the city itself.

Teen Review
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Enemy at the Gates

By Jean-Jacques Annaud
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 25, 2025

Enemy at the Gates plunges viewers into the brutal Battle of Stalingrad, focusing on Vasily Zaitsef, a skilled Russian sniper, and his deadly duel with German sharpshooter Major Erwin König. The film vividly portrays the harrowing conditions of the siege, showcasing the sheer desperation and carnage of urban warfare. As Vasily's reputation grows, so does the psychological tension, culminating in a tense cat-and-mouse game between the two snipers.

Teen Review
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The Black Island

By Hergé
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Sanay M.
Feb 25, 2025

After witnessing a horrible plane crash, Tintin attempts to investigate further and offer his help. Suddenly he is shot by an armed man who appears to have also shot down the plane. Later, he is intertwined into a crime he never committed, and Tintin finds himself being hunted by both the authorities and ruthless criminals determined to silence him once and for all. His journey will take him from land to sea, where there is conflict waiting to happen at every turn.

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