An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
Scenes
Reviews
★★★★★
My wife and I watched this movie on DVD from our public library. We enjoyed it, and while watching it I gave thanks that my 5 were teenagers before the era of smartphones and social media.
This was written and directed by Bo Burnham, himself not far out of hi...
★★★★★
Unlike so many of a similar vein, 'Eighth Grade (2018)' isn't about 'kids gone wild' or 'the corruption of a constantly online world'. Rather, it's simply about a good person trying to figure out what it means to be herself. It's both a tender reflection and a...
★★★★★
Painful. Poignant. Spot on. If you have an eighth grader, had an eighth grader or ever were an eighth grader, you will relate.
★★★★★
I wasn't going to review this film until I read the other reviews. But the way a large number of people so negatively react to this film is a testament to how powerful it really is, and perhaps says more about the film than those reviews themselves ever could....
★★★★★
I knew Burnham as comedy writer and performer but not as a film director. A very realistic and honest presentation of adolescent transitions and its difficulties in our modern society. Extremely accurate.
