Eighth Grade

2018

Action / Comedy / Drama / Horror

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 99% · 326 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 82064 82.1K

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Plot summary

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.


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September 30, 2018 at 06:41 AM

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Elsie Fisher as Kayla
Fred Hechinger as Trevor
Josh Hamilton as Mark Day
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by youngcollind 10 / 10

Uncomfortably true to life

While the cringe genre usually brings to mind over the top characters like Michael Scott and Larry David breaking unwritten social rules and making grand buffoonish displays, it rarely cuts this close to home, making you cringe because of how easy it is to relate to. That feeling when there's a conversation around you and you don't know how to jump in. That feeling when you know your lack of confidence is holding you back but you don't have the confidence to do anything about it. While we may carry these feelings into our adult lives, it was the perfect combination of hormones and naiveté that made them hit like a ton of bricks in our formative years. This film is a deep dive into this awkward anxiety that feels oddly personal while being universally relatable. Elsie Fisher is fantastic to the point where you forget she's acting and not just living as the character. The script is equal measures sweet and funny when it's not just downright uncomfortable. Whether or not you grew up with social media (and thank God I didn't), this film will bring you back to your youth and make you appreciate that it's something you only have to go through once.

Reviewed by soundoflight 8 / 10

Hard Truths

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.

We live in a world that hates the truth. And "Eighth Grade" is pure truth. The most remarkable thing about the film is how it refrains from dramatizing how young people today grow up and interact, and instead tries to simply show things how they are. You can argue how successful they were in this attempt, but I think they got it pretty close. And some things about growing up are timeless. While the technology may have changed, all of the things Kayla did in the film, I also did at that age. I also came from a broken home and background of trauma, and I was also not popular. One review said that you had to be a loser to like this film, and maybe there is more than a nugget of truth there. The kid who was head of the class in Grade 8 might have a tough time relating.

The film does very little to explain all this to the viewer, and does not make any attempt to show why Kayla is how she is. This is fascinating because that is exactly how our society, and in particular teen society, works: it is blind to why people are how they are, and simply ruthlessly sorts them into categories such as attractive/popular and ugly/unpopular. It seems that people who are used to going along with this way of thinking are puzzled and unsettled by the film.

What "Eighth Grade" ultimately is, is a mirror. It simply reflects back to us what our world is. There is no editorialization. So when so many people are recoiling in horror from a mirror, what does that actually say?

Reviewed by jboothmillard 6 / 10

Eighth Grade

Film critic Mark Kermode on BBC News - The Film Review said he loved this film, and that it was one of the most realistic coming-of-age movies in many years, I was looking forward to seeing it after many positive opinions. Basically at Miles Grove Middle School, a public school in the state of New York, Kayla Day (Golden Globe nominated Elsie Fisher) is a thirteen-year-old eighth grade student is finishing her final week before graduation. Kayla spends most of her time using social media, in particular posting motivational videos about self-image and confidence on YouTube, which get little to no views. In reality however, Kayla is very shy and struggles to form friendships, she is even voted "Most Quiet" in the student yearbook. Also, because of her reliance on social media, her single father Mark (Josh Hamilton) struggles to connect with her. Kayla is invited to a birthday pool party by her classmate Kennedy Graves (Catherine Oliviere), her mother forced her to do so. Kayla suffers an anxiety attack while at the party, but eventually comes out of the bathroom and goes outside to swim. After meeting Kennedy's eccentric cousin Gabe (Jake Ryan), Kennedy opens her birthday presents, she and everyone has little reaction to Kayla's present, a card game. Kayla tries to leave the party, but her crush Aiden Wilson (Luke Prael) suggests she rejoins the group, she overcomes her fear and volunteers to sing karaoke. Kayla hears that Aiden broke up with his last girlfriend after she refused to send him nude photos, she fabricates that she has a dirty photos folder on her phone, which grabs his interest. Aiden asks her if she gives blowjobs, and unsure of what to say answers yes, she later searches the internet of how to give oral sex and is disgusted. Kayla attends a high school shadow program, friendly twelfth grade student Olivia (Emily Robinson) shows her around. Olivia gives Kayla her number, and later invites her to the mall to have lunch with some friends. They enjoy themselves, but Kayla spots her father spying from afar, she is embarrassed and tells him to leave. Olivia's friend Riley (Daniel Zolghadri) drives Kayla home, and stops to initiate an awkward game of truth or dare. During the game Riley asks Kayla about her sexual experience, he takes off his shirt, and asks her to take hers off, she refuses, and he backs off, and continues to drive in frustration. Kayla returns home and breaks down; her father Mark comforts her. She later makes an online video to announce that she will no longer be making any more videos, she admits she is not the person she pretends to be and feels unfit to give advice. Kayla opens a time capsule she created for herself in sixth grade, it contains a UBS stick with her younger self questioning about her love life and friends. That night she asks her father to help her burn her time capsule and asks if she makes him sad, he says that he is proud of her and she could never make him sad, and she hugs him tightly. At graduation, Kayla decides to confront Kennedy for ignoring her, about her reaction to her birthday present, and acting indifferent towards her despite her attempts to be nice. Kayla later has dinner at Gabe's house, and they have a fun time together. Kayla makes a new time capsule which she and her father bury in the backyard, including a USB with a video message for her future self in high school to encourage her through tough times. Also starring Fred Hechinger as Trevor and Imani Lewis as Aniyah. Fisher gives a terrific naturalistic performance as the nervous and socially awkward young teenager, there are many embarrassing, cringe-worthy situations that the audience can empathise with and relate to, it is a slightly uneventful story, but the teenagers act and talk like real ones, and the use of "Orinoco Flow" by Enya is terrific, all in all it is an interesting and worthwhile comedy drama. Good!

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