I adored Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, a movie that has a deep well of empathy not just for its brainy lead characters, but for teenagers in general. While the trailer makes the film look like it’s in the vein of 2007’s Superbad, my wife made the sharp observation (as usual) that it’s really more like Can’t Hardly Wait, a movie where a bunch of high school seniors have rested on assumptions about each other and it’s only until they’re about to head off to college that they realize their classmates were more complex than …http://collider.com/booksmart-review/" target="_blank">Read More . . .

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