Not since Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) has a comedy captured so vividly the agony and the ecstasy-well, OK, it's all agony-of being a... teenage girl. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 17, 2020

Eighth Grade is a masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2019

The real genius of Eighth Grade is its universality - an honesty and compassion that cut across generational boundaries.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2019

It's just sweet, sad and beautifully observed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

This is a film that gets under the skin of Generation X with humour and heartfelt emotion that makes it a genuinely great coming-of-age movie that hooks you by the heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

A character study of singular sensitivity. Burnham and Fisher hit upon too many defining aspects of the young-teen experience to list

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

[Director Bo] Burnham may have crafted a simple story about the most ordinary of teenage girls, but it speaks with the emotions of a true cinematic epic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

While Kayla Day is very much a teenager of her precise time and place, her gruelling anxiety - and Fisher's wonderful yearning in the role - make her universally relatable anyway.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2019

Eighth Grade is also deeply sweet in unexpected places and howlingly funny, attuned to the timeless indignities of any adolescence.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Effortlessly brilliant, [Elsie Fisher] possesses the plucky, conflicted vulnerability of a young Amy Adams.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 24, 2019

A beautifully observed exploration of adolescence in all its excruciating awkwardness and devastating uncertainties.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Elsie Fisher is absolutely outstanding in the role of Kayla Day, like an undiscovered Fanning sister: her smart, observant performance gives the audience instant access to her vulnerabilities, hurt feelings and quiet determination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Eighth Grade doesn't capture the world ending, but never discredits the moments when Kayla feels like it could.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

The movie catches every marginal cringing embarrassment and each infinitesimal joy. Very little happens in it, and yet everything does.

| Apr 17, 2019

Eighth Grade is one of the most thoughtful and nuanced films made about the teenage experience, an authentic story of angst, anxiety and confusion - in other words, what it's like to be 13 years old.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2019

Eighth Grade is filled with insights, both humorous and painful. All the acting is fine, but Elsie Fisher is a revelation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2019

Burnham puts you through the wringer and ensures your empathetic excruciation in scene after scene.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2018

Lives spent looking at devices and screens is a reality for most of us, for better or worse; Eighth Grade is notable because it consciously avoids serving up a familiar media brew of technophobia and misogyny.

| Aug 29, 2018

Eighth Grade beats back toxic masculinity with kindness.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 26, 2018

A hilarious and often horrifying exploration of the trials of growing up.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 25, 2018