'Booksmart' Is A Wise And Warm Summer Comedy
Director Olivia Wilde and leads Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever do wonderful work in a film about two high-school best friends who have one night to reverse course.
The opening moments of Booksmart, the directorial debut of actress Olivia Wilde, present a question, just by force of viewing habit: What kind of cinematic high-school girl type is this?
Played by Beanie Feldstein, Molly begins her day listening to affirmations about achieving greatness. She goes off to school, where she's class president. She suffers no fools, gladly or otherwise. From these hints, you might guess that in the world of high school movies, she is an Tracy Flick type: driven, insufferable, unpopular. But you also see her dance like a goofball with
