Booksmart: A Refreshing Comedy You Should Definitely See

Alex Mell-Taylor
5 min readJul 11, 2019

Seriously, go see it.

Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart is a funny, coming-of-age romp. It’s a combination of Superbad meets Mean Girls (if you took out every scene in Mean Girls, but the debate team subplot). The relationship between the two main characters Amy (played by Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (played by Beanie Feldstein) is hilarious, warm, and feminist…

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