Synopsis
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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Cast
- Elsie FisherKayla Day
- Josh HamiltonMark Day
- Emily RobinsonOlivia
- Jake RyanGabe
- Daniel ZolghadriRiley
- Fred HechingerTrevor
- Imani LewisAniyah
- Luke PraelAiden
- Catherine OliviereKennedy
- Nora MullinsSteph
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
At every turn, Fisher is honest and open, relatable to the point that you feel as if you’re actually watching her own life play out. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Eighth Grade is cognizant of all the new scary realities of growing up with an internet-connected camera on your person at all times, but it also finds hope in it, as, if nothing else, a tool for self-discovery. - 90
Variety
Eighth Grade” shines as, like, a totally spot-on, you know, portrait of Millennial angst and stuff. That may be how Kayla (and all her peers) talk...but Burnham shows a sociolinguist’s ear for the cadence and flow of 21st-century girl-speak, and Fisher...delivers his dialogue so naturally, you’d swear she’s making it up as she goes along. - 90
Village Voice
Eighth Grade rejects predictable plot points and instead lives on the electric edge of awkwardness and uncertainty and doubt that represents the middle school experience; you never quite know what’s going to happen to Kayla, and that feels right. - 83
The Playlist
Fisher must be given immense credit for making it all work as her performance is pitch-perfect in every respect. Sometimes, it feels like you’re not even watching an actress perform but an actual person. The way Burnham shot some of the scenes makee it feel like non-fiction rather than fiction. - 83
The A.V. Club
What makes this coming-of-age film special is that it’s at once harsh and humanist: a perceptive, realistic comedy about tweenage life that’s also rich in compassion, that scarcest of junior-high commodities. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Newcomer Elsie Fisher offers a breakout performance. - 80
Screen Daily
While Eighth Grade may look, on its surface, like a typical adolescent comedy, with its underdog protagonist pitted against popular girls and boy crushes, it is more a piquant series of vignettes that form a singular and focused portrait of youthful angst.
