Book-to-screen adaptations can be a tricky tightrope to walk — you're essentially taking a story that involves a lot of introspection and altering it for a more physical medium, one that relies on outward expression more often than it does inner thought. In terms of Judy Blume's 1970 novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, that internal dialogue is literally right there in the title. With its unflinching subject matter and ensuing censorship, the fact that it's taken the story over 50 years to earn a big-screen movie doesn't come as a surprise. What is a surprise — and delightfully so — is that writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen) has absolutely nailed her translation of Blume's beloved coming-of-age story. As someone who read the original book again, and again, and again — checking out a dog-eared copy from my local library more times than I could count — watching this movie felt exactly like being catapulted back to the instant when I first fell in love with sixth-grader Margaret Simon and her journey into womanhood.