Booksmart

...witty, raucous, perfectly played and eventually packs an emotional wallop.

Booksmart is a loving and endearing piece of filmmaking - wickedly funny and adventurous - and a jaw dropping directorial debut from Wilde.

It's raunchy and kind of gross at times, but there is such heart, sweetness, and honesty about high school.

It sounds like such a cliche but you will literally laugh and cry, and flash back to your own teenage days with fondness, not horror.

First, the good news: it's immediately clear that Wilde is a filmmaker by vocation... If anything, the film is polished to a fault: the marketing term "elevated genre," most frequently applied to horror, feels equally apt here.

Booksmart is such a smart, funny, rude, cheerful, likeable movie. It's well worth checking out, even if your school days are a distant memory.

Refreshingly, the film's generous spirit extends to all its characters, whether geek or jock or cool kid. Unlike almost every other high-school movie, no one here is a mean girl in need of a comeuppance.

Fast, frank, graphically sexual exchanges populate the script, but it never becomes grating.

"With such a fully formed debut, it's hard not to fall in love with Booksmart. It offers laughs, tears and heart by the bucket-load"

In the end, this is a movie you end up liking despite its faults.