Molly Manners’ nimble and frequently funny debut film, which astutely maps the peaks and valleys of one charged friendship between two adolescent girls at an English boarding school
Extra Georgraphy 2026
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On top of the burdens you’re born into, how do you simultaneously navigate schoolwork, peer drama, the many mysteries of your budding sexuality, and the unknowable land of boys while also trying to stay loyal to your friendships and be true to your own identity? And on that note, have you figured out who you are yet?
Based on Rose Tremain’s dreamlike 2007 short story with the same name, Molly Manners’ debut feature “Extra Geography” (adapted by “Succession” scribe Miriam Battye) conquers these treacherous coming-of-age waters with a prose so sharp-tongued, timelessly wise and funny that this Gen-Xer felt as if it arrived to fill a cinematic void in her own teen-hood retroactively, just like other comparable movies this side of “Ghost World.” In that, the first quarter of the 21st century has indeed been good to movies about female friendships, with “Extra Geography” joining the ranks of instant greats like “Lady Bird,” “Booksmart” and “Frances Ha.”
— Tomris Laffly, Variety