Eighth Grade

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]

Eighth Grade is a masterpiece.

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

It's just sweet, sad and beautifully observed.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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