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    'Booksmart' review: Cutting loose with the smartest kids in class

    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune May 22, 2019 3 minutes

    "Booksmart" takes a familiar blueprint and uses it to build a movie we haven't seen often enough: an R-rated teen comedy (meaning, a comedy about teenagers) focusing on a great female friendship.

    The movie's not always as wonderful as that friendship. Some bits are hilarious yet life-like, while others belong to medium-high-grade situation comedy, a realm of snappy, quippy comic exaggeration all about the stereotypes, though here the stereotypes are turned inside out, at least. Mainly, "Booksmart"

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