Bo Burnham’s middle-school drama has a pinpoint generational savvy that makes it the best film of its kind since “Welcome to the Dollhouse”
I keep reading that “Eighth Grade,” Bo Burnham’s captivating drama about a shy but intensely aware girl named Kayla (Elsie Fisher), who’s doing all she can to navigate her final week of middle school, is a movie that’s universal and eternal — one that captures the age-old zone of pimply bashful awkwardness that defines the moment […]
