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Film Review - Bottoms

Film Review - Bottoms

Emma Seligman’s high school female fight club comedy proves an anarchic, hilarious blast

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Nov 09, 2023
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As Basil Fawlty once said, after finally snapping at an overbearing American guest who kept threatening to “bust his ass”: “Everything’s bottoms, isn’t it?” Well, Bottoms, a deliriously anarchic comedy from Shiva Baby (2020) director Emma Seligman, certainly contains the prurience suggested by the title, but without the copiou…

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