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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 22 May 2019

Feldstein and Dever have a kind of mad, cartoon chipmunk chemistry, playing characters who know each other so well that they finish each other’s…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 May 2019

It's an R-rated teen comedy that proves that you can center girls’ experiences without sacrificing grossness, and that you can be gross without…

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By Samantha Incorvaia (38) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 May 2019

The pacing and writing are as smart as the film's title…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 22 May 2019

As a form of wish fulfillment, it’s fascinating if unpersuasive; as a vision of its subject—high-school life—it’s as faux-sweet and…

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By Lamontraymond (377) on 22 May 2019

It's a really good movie, though totally different from any other classic teen movie - mostly due to the fact that almost nobody is mean to…

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By Stevenslabaugh (3) on 22 May 2019

I saw an advance screening of this movie and I thought it was very good…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2019

What good high school movies do is take the basics of the teenage condition and refocus them for a specific generation’s point of view…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 21 May 2019

So yeah, Booksmart is a different kind of teen comedy – clever and buoyant, proudly feminist and wonderfully reassuring that, yeah, the kids…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 21 May 2019

Olivia Wilde’s raunchy yet adorable high-school comedy Booksmart understands a basic truth: For so many former teenage girls, your first…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 May 2019

If the storyline doesn’t so much unfold as burst out in glittery puffs — and if music cues seem to make up about 40 percent of the plot—it’s…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 21 May 2019

Perhaps the best way to describe Booksmart, the assured directorial debut of actress Olivia Wilde, is John Hughes for the 21st century…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 May 2019

Mainly, Booksmart works because Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein are so magically right together…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2019

It may begin with a scattered, cartoonish approach, but Booksmart eventually blooms into something entirely and beautifully its own…

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By Ella Kemp (95) for Empire (3,446) on 20 May 2019

No ceremonious life lessons here — Booksmart lives in a euphoric moment of unapologetic youth that knows what it deserves…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 20 May 2019

The worst thing you can say about the brilliantly zany teen comedy Booksmart is that you get only an hour and 45 minutes with its quirky student body…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 20 May 2019

Booksmart changes the game and opens the genre up to greater possibilities…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 May 2019

You know what movie is even better than this…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 19 May 2019

Wilde is unerringly focussed on her heroines, and on their fundamental right to get things wrong…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 15 May 2019

Booksmart is the first non-Netflix teen sex comedy to come off in ages, and hints that too-pretty/too smart/too funny Olivia Wilde could be…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 May 2019

Actor-turned-director Olivia Wilde (shockingly, this is her behind-the-camera feature debut) shows off something rarer than technique or comic…

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