Coming-of-age stories seem to take on a more meta aspect
once it sinks in that, over the last couple years, they’ve served as ample
ground for actors to come of age in their own way and become filmmakers in their own. Greta Gerwig went out on the solo tip with Lady Bird, Bo Burnham
struck gold with Eighth Grade, and Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart is one of the
single best things she’s ever been attached to. And it seems that Jonah Hill, a
figure at the nexus for the rises of filmmakers like Judd Apatow and Seth
Rogen, is stepping into the arena with his own take on when a kid starts to
learn how to be an adult. And fucking hell, I don’t know what it says about me
that this film appeals to me so damn much, but yeah, that’s what we get here.
