Booksmart / Top 5 Female Friendships

Booksmart / Top 5 Female Friendships

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The winning friendship at the center of the new teen comedy inspires a rich Top 5 topic.

A raunchy/sweet comedy in the “Superbad” mold, Olivia Wilde’s BOOKSMART mixes genre cliches and clever updates as it follows its high achieving protagonists on a one-night odyssey to shed their by-the-book images and make it to The Year’s Biggest Party. Adam and Josh have lots of praise for leads Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever and the talented ensemble - and for the formal inventiveness that Wilde brings to her directing debut.

And then Adam and Josh go on the run with Thelma and Louise for the Top 5, assembling an all-star crew along the way of the movies’ best female pals.

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