THR reviewers' favorite movies of the first six months of the year include Pixar's latest, 'Toy Story 4'; Scorsese's new Dylan doc; Olivia Wilde's hall-of-fame teen comedy 'Booksmart'; and Colombian crime epic 'Birds of Passage.'
Olivia Wilde delivers a fantastic directorial debut with this hilarious, blazingly paced teen comedy. The story of overachieving high school besties who embark on an epic night of bad behavior before graduation, the film is as raucous as 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco'Joe Talbot's artful, quietly funny debut joins the ranks of great San Francisco films with its original story of two black outcasts navigating the city they grew up in, which has changed so dramatically.
Full of eye-opening musical performances, it also sparkles with tongue-in-cheek humor and surprising fictional interviews interwoven with actual ones.French filmmaker Christophe Honoré's radiant and wrenching '90s-set drama traces the intertwining lives of a writer with AIDS and a student in the heat of his queer awakening.
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