booksmart criticism

HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Take a movie like Disney's live-action Aladdin remake, for example. Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ solid The Kings of Summer earned $1.3 million for CBS Films in summer 2013, but he still got to make Kong: Skull Island for Warner Bros. and Legendary. Feldstein and Dever have a kind of mad, cartoon chipmunk chemistry, playing characters who know each other so well that they finish each other’s sentences and step on each other’s lines. Booksmart feels baked in sexual diversity, as students at the various parties Molly and Amy bounce between are shown in a variety of couplings and sexual orientations. In 2019, if you're not a superhero movie, a high-concept horror flick, a branded toon or a live-action musical, you're a longshot for theatrical success. Also that they’re having a hell of a good time. They also barely registered at the box office. A stellar high school comedy with an A+ cast, a brilliant script loaded with witty dialogue, eye-catching cinematography, swift editing, and a danceable soundtrack. The good news is Olivia Wilde’s comedy may be the kind of movie that goes down swinging but results in its filmmakers and cast going on to other high profile/studio work. The film was a hit with South by Southwest audiences in March, and it seemed to find the right demo to target with ads on social media, but its distributor, United Artists Releasing (a joint distribution venture formed by Annapurna Pictures and MGM), gave Booksmart a nationwide release—a move that even its director acknowledged was risky—rather than a slow rollout over the first few weeks of summer. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming, What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App. First, while it does indeed focus on Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein), at no point is this underlined or highlighted as a reason to give the bawdy comedy any extra credit. Before the 2017 blockbuster “Wonder Woman,” Patti Jenkins’s last feature was the 2003 “Monster.”. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Still, there are signs of a shift. That’s where Booksmart excels. As Booksmart takes its shape, albeit haphazardly, Wilde’s filmmaking skills become more and more evident, bursting forth in a third act that builds into something beautiful and even transcendent. Detractors replied that pitting “Booksmart” against a Disney movie with people of color in lead roles was problematic and unfair. It's refreshing and funny, and with a nuanced friendship between two young women at the forefront, unexpected romantic entanglements, and one increasingly dramatic party set piece, it has just about everything you would want to see in a classic high school comedy for today (and with a rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics agree). A hilarious, blazingly paced teen comedy. Follow me at @ScottMendelson and "like" The Ticket Booth on Facebook. The pacing and writing are as smart as the film's title.

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