Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton give remarkable performances of their own. One of the best coming-of-age films in recent years an it’s not even close.

| Aug 7, 2024

Eighth Grade was everything I hoped it would be and more. It struck such an emotional chord with me that it was borderline unnerving. It’s not just one of the year’s best. It’s one of the decade’s best!

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Eighth Grade is a carefully constructed love letter to the messy, confusing years of middle school, and a reassurance to those going through it that things will eventually be okay.

| Jul 25, 2023

This is the kind of reassuring warm hug that’s actually a lie as pernicious as one in any romcom.

| Jan 6, 2023

Essential viewing for teenagers about to enter secondary (or high) school in the age of social media, as well as parents trying to understand or just get a glimpse inside what their children are doing on their phones all day.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 10, 2022

“Eighth Grade” doesn’t pave an easy path for its lead character. Kayla’s struggles are realistic, relatable and heartbreaking. You could almost call it relentless if not for the welcomed moments of levity strategically sprinkled throughout.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

"Eighth Grade" endeavors to tell the ponderous plight of this current connected generation and nails it with astonishing honesty and freshness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2022

Eighth Grade is one of those rare films that speaks to everyone, regardless of its subjective specificity, through universal life lessons that every person must learn and overcome before becoming an adult.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 11, 2022

Burnham challenges us to look back on our own pasts and give those meme-ready phone surfers a big break.

| Feb 11, 2022

A relentlessly incisive and anxiety-inducing dumbo drop into the worst time of our collective lives

| Jan 10, 2022

Earnest and sweet, fumbling and awkward.

| Original Score: 70/100 | Aug 22, 2021

Eighth Grade, the film by first time writer-director Bo Burnham, is not for eighth graders. But if you're a parent, grandparent, or anyone who cares deeply about the 13 or 14 year-old in your life, this film is for you.

| Aug 13, 2021

Starring the naturally sympathetic young actress Elsie Fisher, it's a vivid and sometimes quietly heartbreaking reminder of how awkward growing up can be.

| May 11, 2021

Bo Burnham's brilliant directing debut will take you back to the awful awkwardness of adolescence.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 29, 2021

It's a crime that Elsie Fisher hasn't won every award possible for her work as the lead, and Josh Hamilton also deserves praise for his performance as Kayla's dad...

| Apr 16, 2021

Alfred Hitchcock allegedly claimed "drama is life with the dull bits cut out"; Eighth Grade instead makes the dull bits interesting. It is a surprising film - and a wonderful one.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 17, 2021

Eighth Grade reminds us of the familiar growing pains in that unbalanced time transitioning from middle school to high school.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 3, 2021

An unvarnished, pimples and all, look at adolescence and the anxiety that comes with it

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 28, 2021

... an important movie that should be seen, thought about, and discussed, ideally with someone who's not your age.

| Feb 18, 2021

Eighth Grade has a way of hitting you right between the eyes with the real-life turmoil of being a teenager no matter how old you are now.

| Dec 10, 2020