Kaitlyn Dever, left, and Beanie Feldstein in “Booksmart.” By Ann Hornaday Ann Hornaday Movie critic Email Bio Follow Movie critic May 23 Rating:
Molly, Feldstein’s character, is a high school senior on the last day of high school, her perfectionism and academic overachievement having culminated in an acceptance to Yale and a self-satisfied feeling of superiority. Together with her best friend, Amy , Molly has held herself above the jocks, party girls, theater geeks and slackers who wasted four years having fun. But when Molly discovers that they’ve actually been just as successful while she’s been grinding it out, she crumbles.
Beanie Feldstein, left, and Kaitlyn Dever in “Booksmart.” And f-bombs are dropped, fast and furiously, in “Booksmart,” which sometimes feels like it’s straining a little too hard to be as crude as the Apatovian bromances it both imitates and comments on. The film’s script tries mightily to be in-your-face, racking up way too many vagina jokes when just one would have sufficed, and at one point digressing into a bizarre hallucination scene enacted by Barbie-like dolls.
As “Booksmart” takes its shape, albeit haphazardly, Wilde’s filmmaking skills become more and more evident, bursting forth in a third act that builds into something beautiful and even transcendent. Sneaking her camera through a raucous party scene, stopping along the way for a lyrical swimming pool sequence filmed almost entirely underwater, she invites the audience to see these kids as she does: with respect, affection and belief in their essential goodness, despite their adolescent impulses.
yashar So, it is that, but also more?
Tired of teenage movies. Guess I am old.
Looks completely unwatchable. Bring back the classics-- like 'Casablanca' and 'Meatballs'!
yashar Absolutely correct.
Should be on every high school senior's movie list !
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