Plot Summary – Before graduation, best friends Amy and Molly realise that they have been cast aside by their peers for being bookworms and pretentious. They then decide to let loose and make up for the lost time.

★★★★½ 

Watched 23 Feb, 2021

Booksmart is one of the most consistently hilarious and simultaneously interesting films I’ve watched. The way it balances comedy and dramatic tension is marvelous and makes for a very entertaining watch. Maybe this film hit harder for me cause I’m in my senior year of high school and even though I go to high school in a different country where high school culture is very different, I still felt and related to some aspect of every moment of it. Olivia Wilde does a great job here in her directorial debut as she depicts high school accurately in its energy and the nature of high school where it’s a string of memories rather than a coherent storyline is so fitting. Kaitlyn Denver and Beanie Feldstein are so convincing as these best friends, Amy and Molly and watching their performances carries this film when it has dull moments. The way it explores so many topics in such a short time frame and still manages to be so entertaining is a feat unto itself. I definitely enjoyed this film a lot and would recommend it to anyone.