Dave's Rating:   Building a better Twilight  Once, when I was
16, the assistant youth minister at my Baptist church told me I
should stop reading The Catcher in the Rye because it was
"ungodly." At that point in my bookish adolescent snottiness I
decided that not only was I absolutely going to finish it, but I
also needed to seek out all the other banned and controversial
books I could find. Of course, now that I'm a thousand years old
I don't need a similarly rebellious, book-starved, teenage movie
protagonist like Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) to validate my
experience, but it's good that the movies throw a bone to the
underrepresented minority of grumpy adolescent readers every
once in a blue moon.  Ethan lives in a sleepy Southern town full
of self-righteous know-nothings ("a town of buttermilk minds"
declares writer-director Richard LaGravanese's script, an
apparently very loose adaptation of Margaret Stohl and Kami
Garcia's novel) where he consumes forbidden books like
Slaughterhouse-Five, Tropic of Can