Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart is a refreshing and delightful high school comedy that centers the plot revolving around its female protagonists – not on their romantic escapades, though that does play a part – but on their enduring friendship and their long repressed desires. The episodic structure gives the film and almost Odyssean flavor as our heroes journey from party to party – accompanied by their very own version of the Oracle at Delphi – and run-ins with monsters, both literal, and made of their own selfishness and pride. The performances are joyous, and Olivia Wilde proves herself to have a knack for comic timing and the use of music to undercut our characters’ perceptions of themselves. I’m a sucker for high school comedies that end up challenging our assumptions and stereotypes, and Booksmart does that quite nicely.