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Generation Z Gets Its Coming-of-Age Classic

Refreshingly free of stereotype, Olivia Wilde’s wonderful film <em>Booksmart </em>should easily join the teen-movie canon.
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There’s a whiff of topicality to the premise of , given the of late. Olivia Wilde’s new comedy follows the high-school pals Amy (played by Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein), who’ve stayed out of trouble for their entire academic career so that they could get into the best colleges. But when graduation week rolls around, Amy and Molly discover that all their hard-partying peers got into the same big-name institutions as them, so the girls resolve to

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