Booksmart

...witty, raucous, perfectly played and eventually packs an emotional wallop.

It's raunchy and kind of gross at times, but there is such heart, sweetness, and honesty about high school.

First, the good news: it's immediately clear that Wilde is a filmmaker by vocation... If anything, the film is polished to a fault: the marketing term "elevated genre," most frequently applied to horror, feels equally apt here.

It's more John Hughes than Judd Apatow, and it's a little more Bridesmaids than Lady Bird...a success on [its] own terms...

The film is peppered with jokes-some highly clever, some merely raunchy, as the genre demands-but it also has a beating heart.

Booksmart puts a fresh spin on the coming-of-age night-of comedy because it's focused on two girls, one of whom is also queer.

"With such a fully formed debut, it's hard not to fall in love with Booksmart. It offers laughs, tears and heart by the bucket-load"

In the end, this is a movie you end up liking despite its faults.

A movie like Booksmart comes along to remind us that we were actually heroes, no matter what group we belonged to.

And Booksmart is incredibly smart to use a similar concept to tell a story that is much more at ease with itself, without trying to force a narrative.