Overview
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.
The good: The film has heart. Tons of heart. The movie is at different turns heartbreaking and touching. The awkward scenes of youth and trying to figure it all out are some of the best that I’ve seen in coming-of-age films. The video interludes acted as a nice way to show the mind of the lead character.
The bad: there really isn’t anything bad about the film. It just isn’t in my upper-echelon in the genre. In the last third of the film I found myself looking around the room.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Eighth Grade
Movie title: Eighth Grade
Movie description: 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.
Date published: 2018-10-19
Director(s): Bo Burnham
Actor(s): Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis, Luke Prael, Catherine Oliviere, Nora Mullins, Gerald W. Jones, Missy Yager, Shacha Temirov, Greg Crowe, Thomas J O'Reilly, Frank Deal, J. Tucker Smith, Tiffany Grossfeld, Trinity Goscinsky-Lynch, Natalie Carter, Kevin R. Free, Deborah Unger, Tristan Wheeler, Kylie Seaman, Dylan Vonderhorst, Luke Mulligan, Louisa Rose Guarasci, Brenna Parker, William Koo, Marguerite Stimpson, Andrew Geher, Faith Kelly, Jalesia Martinez, Blair Seaman, Phoebe Amirault, Veronica Bikowicz, Castor Feinberg, Molly Forman, Vivek Nickolas Mathews, Olivia Galligan, Kendall Seaman, Nina Victoria Mathews, Kaileen Quinones, V. Rocco Russell, Courtney Gonzalez
Genre: Comedy, Drama
My Review
The good: The film has heart. Tons of heart. The movie is at different turns heartbreaking and touching. The awkward scenes of youth and trying to figure it all out are some of the best that I’ve seen in coming-of-age films. The video interludes acted as a nice way to show the mind of the lead character.
The bad: there really isn’t anything bad about the film. It just isn’t in my upper-echelon in the genre. In the last third of the film I found myself looking around the room.
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My Review - 6/10
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