Eighth Grade (2018)
It seems that she has fed up from being a child, need to try something new. Kayla, the young girl who is in her last grade year in the middle school. Although she has only one week from leaving it and joining the high school, she can't wait and calculate the minutes as years. Through a series of comedy events, the movie takes a deep look in her last week in the middle school and how she struggles during it.
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July 25, 2018
[Bo Burnham] captures the slings and arrows of adolescence, the high drama felt by not-quite-adults who still think everything is a matter of life and death, with an astonishing amount of empathy.
July 25, 2018
This is a movie that refuses to shy away from some fairly dark realities yet at the same time doesn't dwell on them in ways that feel exploitive or supercilious.
July 23, 2018
There's plenty of discourse on how The Youth spend too much time with screens, but Eighth Grade is more interested in understanding Kayla's story on her terms than judging it on someone else's.
July 25, 2018
Burnham... ends up making a movie about internet immersion that ratifies the importance of human contact.
July 19, 2018
Eighth Grade is a revelation of both a remarkably natural young performer and a clever, sensitive young filmmaker.
July 25, 2018
Adorably cringe-worthy
July 19, 2018
Burnham is clearly conflicted about the emotional effects of the constant comparisons, competitions and invidious voyeurism young people are subjecting themselves to nearly all day long. And he gets the subjective experience right.
July 24, 2018
Eighth Grade is a harrowing portrait of anxiety and acceptance in a post-social-media landscape, showing how all of us cope with an ever-changing, constantly refreshing world.
July 25, 2018
Insightful without being mean and revealing without taking itself too seriously.
July 20, 2018
As much as Burnham can be applauded, it's impossible not to clap even harder for the pitch-perfect acting of newcomer Elsie Fisher, a marvel in the lead role of an apparently unremarkable 13-year-old.
July 19, 2018
Here's a comedy about the trials, tribulations and compulsive worries of youth told with empathy that does credit to first-time writer/director Bo Burnham.
July 26, 2018
An achingly honest film about some of the ghastliest years of adolescence. Funny, tender and endearing.
