This is a posting of an old, unpolished review which hasn’t been fully checked over. Please forgive any grammatical errors.
There has been a trend over the last couple of years of first time directors dabbling with coming of age films. Greta Gerwig knocked it out of the park with Ladybird, Bo Burnham had a strong effort with eighth grade and Jonah Hill gave it a go with Mid90s. Now Olivia Wildehas become the latest on the bandwagon with Booksmart.
This was a film I was looking to avoid. The trailer looked crass and there was nothing there that made me want to watch it. However, listening to Mark Kermode on Radio 5 Live and all the viewers, he said “The trailer doesn’t do the film justice, go and watch it”, so as I had time at half eight on a cold, wet evening, I decided to take the plunge and let me tell you…
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