Booksmart (2019)

Olivia Wilde's directing debut flips the usual party movie. Two overachieving best friends, played by Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, realize on the eve of graduation that they should have worked less and played more, and try to cram four years of fun into one night. It is fast, warm and genuinely funny about how wrong we are about the classmates we write off, an insight adults appreciate in hindsight. It won Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards, and the friendship at its center feels lived in rather than written. Billie Lourd's chaotic classmate, who keeps turning up wherever the girls go, is the running joke worth the price of admission.