Booksmart

Teenage Kicks: “Booksmart” is an Earnest, Affirming Fantasy of Feelings

two white girls in matching blue coveralls cling to a lamp post
by Aline Dolinh
June 12, 2019 at 2:56pm
Booksmart devotes itself more to the strange, transcendent kind of intimacy that can develop between teens during a singular night.
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(Un)smart Buddies: “Booksmart” Is an Adorably Gawky Entry into the High School Comedy Canon

by Rachel Vorona Cote
May 31, 2019 at 9:47am
If “Booksmart” endeavors to make an argument for what youthfulness can be, and for all the messy hope entangled in it, then it must unearth the muck, too. Read more »