Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennot continue the promise they showed in the rather more low-key Shiva Baby. With Sennot now sharing scripting duties, this is a wild, raw, bonkers, coming-of-age story, which faultlessly finds its own unique loopy tone as it plays with the cliches of high school movies and turns them all inside out in short order. In front of the camera, Sennot is joined by Ayo Edebiri, who is having quite the moment after her far more contained and intense performance in The Bear, and her hilarious and all-too-brief cameo in Theater Camp. Both are pushing 30 but manage to pull off the emotional energy of anxious teens without effort. Rounding out the trio is Ruby Cruz who brings a definite Ally Sheedy vibe, appropriate for a film which picks up where various John Hughes movies left off.

This tight, ninety-minute comedy is stuffed full of good jokes, has just enough genuine emotion not to feel like a sketch show and expertly manages the escalation from fairground teasing to punching in the school gym to… well, that would be telling. Succession’s Dagmara Domińczyk and SNL’s Punkie Johnson are somewhat thrown away, but Seligman and Sennot have the sense not to screw up the film’s lean propulsive momentum by wandering off down backstories for tertiary characters. This is the blood-soaked, feel-good movie of the year and marks Seligman out as a major talent.