★★★★

David Fincher’s Fight Club only ever had one rule. It’s a well known one. Emma Seligman’s 2023 high school update doubles the number. Rule one of Bottoms’ ‘gay, untalented, and ugly’ Fight Club is straightforward enough. Listen. Always and to everything. The second is more flexible: never ever – ever! – be late. Unless, that is, you’re a smoking hot cheerleader, who may or may not be an as-yet-undiscovered lesbian. Let’s add a third. The third rule of this Fight Club is that all members must spread the word. Talk about it! Bottoms is a blisteringly funny new elementary comedy and right up there in the pantheon of genre classics.