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This review was originally published during 2019s South by Southwest festival.
We are republishing the piece as the film hits theaters this weekend.
Throughout the illustrious history of the modern high-school movie, the archetypes havent changed all that much.
Yale for Molly, Columbia for Amy.
What makesBooksmartland so delightfully is Wildes handle on exactly how seriously to take her neurotic heroines.
(Kelly Fremon CraigsThe Edge of Seventeenalso touched on this dynamic to more dramatic effect.)
Its a raunchy but ultimately empathetic Greek chorus of teenage idiocy.
But no level of ensemble wackiness could ever upstage stars Feldstein and Dever.
Booksmartmanages to be inclusive and progressive, without being precious about anything or sacrificing an ounce of humor.
Of course, I have a pretty good idea, in a broad sense.
(Its the endemic Hollywood sexism, stupid.)
