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EIGHTH GRADE (2018) Grade: A-

Excellent script & so painful to watch at times. It will hold up over time. I can't compare it to anything. One example, there is no best friend character. That never happens on a coming of age type film. Very unique, funny and realistic film. 

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Eight Grade

2018. Comedy Drama

Directed by Bo Burnham

Starring: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Catherine Oliviere, Jake Ryan, Luke Prael, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis...

Country: United States

Language: English

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Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird.

Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham (2018)

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Eighth Grade (2018) Bo Burnham 06-04-2019 A great lead performance and a fantastic and touching second half to the movie after a slow first half

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Eighth Grade (2018)

Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade is a work of cinematic portraiture; its subject is Kayla Day. It takes place during one of the more difficult parts of Kayla’s young life—not for any particulars, but for the universal terribleness that is the middle school experience. From the very beginning, we are immersed in a world of rubber bands on braces and stacked Crayola markers, one of prerecorded sex-ed classes and terrible brass renditions of “The Star Spangled Banner,” of overwhelming waves of hormones and uncontrollable acne.

Burnham’s direction is critical in creating this experience. The soundtrack and mix bring us into Kayla’s world as music rises and falls with the proximity of her pink iPhone earbuds. The camera is also well-employed as it alters between hovering over Kayla (literally bringing us into her world and we Steadicam with her) and locking its gaze upon her (forcing us to recognize the girl that would otherwise disappear in such scenes). As an example of both, consider a pool party celebrating the birthday of one of the most popular girls in Kayla’s class (Catherine Oliviere). Kayla sneaks into the scene late, after all the other kids have ventured off into selfie sessions and watergun fights. She tiptoes down to the pool and settles in a corner where she feels safe and unnoticed—only half-conversing with the birthday girl’s obligatorily invited (and compulsively handstanding) cousin, Gabe. When it’s time to open presents, everyone gathers round the birthday girl and oohs and ahhs over each fashionable gift. But Kayla’s—a card game, kind of like Go Fish, but like, more fun—falls on quiet contempt. We stay with Kayla as the scene continues on without her. She might feel invisible, but Burnham’s camera refuses to let it be.

If not clear by now, I should say that fifteen-year-old Elsie Fisher is marvelous as Kayla. All the likes and umms of Burnham’s script flow effortlessly from her practiced lips, but all the more impressive is the way she communicates in quiet moments. This is the work of fine artistry—no juvenile qualifiers needed. Fisher’s the real deal—not effectively achieving the demands of a narrow script (as is often the case with child performances), but fully realizing the complexities of adolescent being as framed by Burnham’s screenplay.

And how about the complexities of the modern adolescent experience? Gone are the days of squawking modems and anxious fingers pecking out grammarless lines in MSN Messenger on the family desktop. In its place: essentially more of the same, just written with fast thumbs in an app, on a phone, from the comforts of the teen’s own bedroom. Burnham conveys the sacred practice with a montage of artificial light and sleepless eyes—like Kayla, effortlessly dissolving from one social media platform to the next. And by the time it’s through, I wonder: how could any parent (hell, could any millennial?) be expected to keep up?

Kayla’s single father certainly has his struggles, though not for lack of trying. Though it often seems like an unknowable entity sits across from him at the dinner table and in his car, his love for Kayla is unmistakable. Eventually, Kayla will recognize it too. That said, he is not some angelic, sweep-him-up-before-he-gets-taken hunk of a single parent. Veteran actor Josh Hamilton brings an everyman fallibility to the role, using his somewhat limited screen time to create more depth of character than a lesser actor would manage. It’s a little thing, but the film is better for it.

Ah but this is Kayla’s movie, so how about another YouTube vlog to remind us? Burnham frames the picture with these pixelated tutorials on such topics as self-esteem and putting yourself out there—diary entries for Kayla as much as they are advice for others. And I wonder how much of a personal touch the pre-recording countdown beeps are to the writer-director, who himself rose to fame as a YouTube star. They recur throughout the film, queuing us for another vlog entry and clever revelation of character. Often Burnham contrasts the words of Kayla’s recordings with the action on screen. In the aforementioned pool party sequence, for example, Kayla espouses the benefits of putting yourself out there and makes reference to “that one awkward girl” while we can clearly see that here, she is that girl. But ultimately, the effect seems mixed. While many in my audience laughed freely, I struggled with it. Surely the world has enough bullies, and what would this laugh—one quite certainly directed at Kayla—make me?

With the exception of those few tough laughs, there’s little doubt about what the director was going for with this film: conveying the awkwardness and uncomfort that define the middle school experience. Perfectly misplaced touches of it dot the picture like a face full of zits, but one scene in particular stands out for the way it rides that feeling of discomfort through some potentially dark territory. One can’t help but think of the #MeToo movement and where it all begins. Thankfully, both Kayla and her male scenemate escape with their humanity, and the film lightens all the way to it’s heartwarming conclusion, one in which a self-described “friend hangout” between Kayla and Gabe reminds us of an ever-important lesson: it’s OK to be awkward. After all, it’s eighth grade.

★★★½

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Eighth Grade

(USA 2018)

“The topic of today’s video is being yourself.”

“Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird.”

— Kayla Day

Eighth grade was the worst year of my life — I hated everything about it: my shitty peers, my changing body, the high school application process. I never looked back once I got out.

It’s probably no big shock then that my favorite movie taking on the horrors and inequities of…

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Double Feature: Eighth Grade (2018) & Tramps (2016)

Double Feature: Eighth Grade (2018) & Tramps (2016) #EighthGrade #Tramps #Netflix #ComingofAge #Comedy #Movie #Film #Review

Welcome to the next double feature! This time, I’ve paired up the 2018 coming of age teen movie Eighth Grade and the 2016 romance/comedy Netflix film, Tramps. Let’s check it out! Eighth Grade (2018) Director (and writer): Bo Burnham Cast: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Luke Prael, Catherine Oliviere An introverted teenage girl tries…

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Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” Reviewed: A Teen Coming-of-Age Story Plagued by Niceness

Richard Brody Reviews “Eighth Grade,” a film directed by Bo Burnham and starring Elsie Fisher, Catherine Oliviere, Josh Hamilton, and Missy Yager. from Humor, Satire, and Cartoons https://ift.tt/2KRqDYd from Blogger https://ift.tt/2NOS56H

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Eighth Grade

13-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) hosts a Youtube series called "Kayla's Korner" where she gives advice to an imagined audience of her peers. She picks topics like "Being Yourself" and "Putting Yourself Out There" and stumbles her way through a pep-talk peppered with "like" and glances at her notes. A glimpse of the subscriber count shows that Kayla's Korner hasn't exactly taken off. "Eighth Grade," the extraordinarily assured feature film debut by writer-director and standup comedian Bo Burnham, starts out with one of these videos and it is so touchingly real, so embarrassingly true to life, you might swear it was improvised, or found footage. But it's not. This is Elsie Fisher, a 13-year-old actress herself, amazingly in touch with what it's like to be in the stage of life she's actually in. Kayla airbrushes out her acne, and swoops on heavy eyeliner. When you see what her life is actually like the Kayla's Korner videos take on an almost tragic significance. But it's strangely hopeful too. This is a young girl trying to understand what she is going through, and she does so by positioning herself as an expert and a helper to others. 

Kayla lives at home with her dad (Josh Hamilton). There's no mother in the picture (why isn't explained until near the end). Her dad struggles to keep a connection with his adolescent daughter, who seems hell bent on shutting him out. The dad's attempts at conversation ("Are you excited about high school?" "You're such a cool kid, those videos you do? They're amazing.") mortify her. Kayla doesn't have any friends, and harbors a gigantic crush on the sleepy-eyed uber-confident Aiden (Luke Prael), swooning whenever she looks at him. She also stares longingly at Kennedy, the Queen Bee of middle school (Catherine Oliviere). 

Bo Burnham knows that of all the terrors in this world, there is nothing quite as terrifying as being a shy 8th grader, attending a birthday party for the most popular kid in school. Filmed like a moment from "Amityville Horror," Kayla stands at the sliding glass doors in her lime-green one-piece bathing suit, shoulders hunched, arms dangling down, staring out at the playful shenanigans of her classmates, all of whom display the social ease utterly unattainable to an outsider like Kayla. Burnham pulls the camera back slowly, as the electronic music (composed by Anna Meredith) blots out all other sound, with Kayla hovering in the background, a ghostly figure seen through glass. "Eighth Grade" is full of stylistic flourishes like this. A flourish can be empty, a flourish can keep the audience comfortably "above" the action onscreen. But Burnham knows what he's doing. Every moment is life-or-death when you're 13. These flourishes identify us so strongly with Kayla that every social scenario is pierced with emotional peril. 

There's all kinds of sublimated "commentary" in "Eighth Grade" about what it's like to be a teenager today: constant internet use, scrolling through the carefully curated Instagram feeds of classmates, the societal pressure to seem "okay" and "fabulous" all the time. When a teenager feels pressure to "perform" her life on Instagram or Snapchat, it changes the game in subtle ways that probably aren't even understood yet. But Burnham keeps the touch light and humorous. He doesn't lecture from a podium. There's an overhead shot of a school assembly, showing hundreds of kids sitting there clutching their phones in their hands. In a chilling sequence, the kids are put through a lockdown drill, where they have to hide under the desks from a hypothetical shooter. They all crouch there, waiting for it to be over, faces lit up by the glow of their phones. But Burnham stays down on the ground with the kids, he's in the thick of it. If social media can keep us disconnected from one another, it can also connect us. After a day "shadowing" a kindly high-school student named Olivia (Emily Robinson), Kayla gets up the courage to call Olivia and thank her, and Olivia is thrilled in her new role as mentor and friend. She even invites Kayla to come hang out at the mall. 

Darker moments threaten. An encounter with an older boy, who tries to force her to play Truth or Dare in the back of his car, highlights just how terrifyingly young she is. She has insanely passionate feelings for Aiden, but all the other stuff—wanting to do anything about those feelings—are not there for her yet. Her father trails along behind her, trying to give her space, but also worried about what might be going on. His concern makes him "hover," and Kayla is desperate to get away from him, but in a late scene, when she asks him if it makes him "sad" to have her as a daughter—his shock that she would feel that way about herself is heartbreaking. 

"Eighth Grade" is so grounded in the reality of middle school it almost operates like a horrible collective flashback. All of the kids in the cast are real middle-schoolers, not 20-somethings playing at adolescence. There's a vast difference between a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old, but this has—typically—been difficult for films to acknowledge or portray. The struggles of teenagers are woven into our cinematic history. But middle school kids? It's harder. 8th graders still have one foot in the sandbox. They are still children, but with bodies exploding into young adulthood, creating a miasma of self-loathing, hormonal surges, irritability ... When the parade of middle schoolers walk in single file into the high school for "shadow" day, the high school kids lining the hallways look like adults in comparison. 

Burnham knows how middle-schoolers really talk. They stumble, they repeat themselves, they try to sound older, but can't help reverting. They don't have a handle on social language yet. "I like your shirt ... I have a shirt too," Kayla says to Kennedy, who stares at Kayla with such dead eyes you can tell she can't wait to look at her phone again. When the Truth or Dare boy says something suggestive, the anxious confused Kayla murmurs to herself, "Okay," but what comes out is, "O-kee..." Fisher's actual age is one of the reasons "Eighth Grade" has such a sense of verisimilitude. Her smile is so rare that when it comes it almost cracks her face, but the joy is so enormous is threatens to push her into a panic attack. She is in the stage of becoming herself. Her dad's loving anxiety is the audience's. But "Eighth Grade", with all its emotional intensity, is not about "what happens." It's about what it feels like to be thirteen. Middle school sucks. Everybody knows that. It's a stage you have to go through. But while you're there, it feels like it goes on forever. Try telling a 13-year-old "This too shall pass." 

Bo Burnham, who got his start as a teenager making Youtube videos of his comedy routines, is only 27 years old. He respects where Kayla is at. He doesn't condescend to her, or to anyone else. "Eighth Grade" is an act of nervy humorous empathy.

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Movie Review: Eighth Grade Eighth Grade Written & directed by Bo Burnham Starring: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Luke Prael, Catherine Oliviere…

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[Under the Radar] ‘Eighth Grade’ is at the Top of its Class

Comedian Bo Burnham makes his writing and directorial debut with Eighth Grade, and it's funny, joyous and heartbreaking—at many times in the same moment.

The film is a coming-of-age movie about Kayla’s (Elsie Fisher) final weeks of junior high. She’s a typical teen—constantly plugged in and living her best life through her YouTube videos, Snapchat and Instagram. On the internet, she exudes a confidence and emotional quotient that she’d never reveal IRL (in real life). In fact, she’s just trying to get past graduation to summer unscathed and unnoticed, though winning the “quietest student” superlative award attracts unwarranted attention.

There are all the elements of a typical teen flick: Kayla’s unrequited crush on class bad boy Aiden (Luke Prael); dealing with the popular (mean) girls, led by Kennedy (Catherine Oliviere); meeting a potential friend in uber-nerd Gabe (Jake Ryan); and hanging with high schoolers during a “shadow day.”

What Burnham does with these elements surprises the viewer, taking the film in unexpected directions. We feel Kayla’s anxiety going to a pool party with the cool crowd, knowing she was a forced invite. We absolutely understand how she can say ridiculously mean things to her well-meaning, caring (and almost too patient) single dad (Josh Hamilton). We laugh and cheer at Kayla’s sheer joy when her older high school mentor invites her to the mall for a hang—and then we shudder when the night takes a dark turn. The film is filled with moments like these, punctuated at the right moments with silence and music.

Fisher, best known for her voice work as Agnes in Despicable Me, is a revelation. Her performance is so natural—gawky, awkward, unintentionally funny—it’s as if she and Burnham found our junior high journals and crafted her vlog entries after them. Where other young actors might have tried to act shy and wallflower-y for this role, Fisher plays Kayla as someone who, at times, tries to be bold and confident—and then fails miserably.

It’s easy to compare Eighth Grade to last year’s Lady Bird (and there are some similarities—suburban girl life, caring parents, school outcast), but Kayla’s journey is her own. Where Lady Bird didn’t care (or so she wanted us to think) about fitting in, Kayla’s so relatable because she wants to fit in, and fakes knowing stuff and says the wrong things in order to do so. And we’ve all been there. She’s of a “different generation” than Lady Bird, and we need both their stories (and more).

After its well-received debut at Sundance this year, the film is finally being released today (Friday, July 13) to the masses, and we hope that audiences will find this gem of a picture amid all the summer superheroes and burning buildings. 

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Review: Eighth Grade balances universal experiences and the unique position of being a teenager in 2018

By KC Wingert

Embarrassing crushes, burgeoning sexuality, bullying, and mall hangs: Eighth Grade covers all the universal experiences that come with being a middle-schooler. But writer and director Bo Burnham’s first feature-length film offers viewers an in-depth exploration of the complicated nature of being a middle-schooler specifically in today’s hyperconnected society.

“Being in eighth grade is weird, and being alive right now is weird,” comedian Burnham explained to the audience at a screening held in the auditorium of Joseph le Conte Middle School in Hollywood last night. The audience, an eclectic mix of creators, industry tastemakers, and actual eighth graders, murmured in agreement. In an age where social media rules and every kid has an iPhone, it has become harder for older generations to relate to the issues kids today face. Eighth Grade calls on older viewers to look on younger generations with compassion as they grapple with both the painful awkwardness of growing up and the additional toxicity that social media can add to their lives. At the same time, the film offers a hopeful message to its younger viewers along the lines of, “You’re going to be okay.”

Eighth Grade is the story of Kayla’s (Elsie Fisher) last week of middle school. Deemed “Most Quiet” in her school’s superlative vote, Kayla actually has a lot to say, and she documents most of it on her YouTube channel. She offers advice to her viewers through daily segments on topics like “How to Be Confident” and “How to Put Yourself Out There.” She tries really hard to apply her advice to her own life, too, by posting sticky notes with encouraging messages near her mirror and making lists of goals (“Be more confident”) and how to meet them (“Don’t slouch”). In her videos, she spends a lot of talking about how she used to lack confidence, but now she’s doing great. However, this is not entirely truthful: although she definitely puts herself out there a lot by trying to befriend the cool girls and talk to cute boys, doing these things doesn’t always wield the results Kayla wants. Downtrodden, she blames herself and continues on her perpetual journey toward self-improvement.

This is where the pernicious influence of social media plays in: Kayla spends a lot of her free time scrolling through her Instagram feed and posting pictures of her heavily made-up face to Snapchat with captions like, “I woke up like this.” The omnipresence of social media in her and her classmates’ lives pressures Kayla to perform happiness. All of this is a ruse to impress the cool kids at her school, like the deliciously bitchy Kennedy (Catherine Oliviere), a rich girl who hates Kayla for seemingly no reason, and the tooootal heartthrob Aiden (Luke Prael), Kayla’s bad-boy crush who only perks up when she lies to him about taking naughty pictures.

Kayla looks at the images of her classmates on social media and compares them to her real-life, awkward self, prompting her to strive for self-improvement at all costs. If she were to look around her, though, Kayla would see that all of her peers are just as weird and awkward as she thinks she is. Unflattering close-ups of kids popping rubber bands onto their braces, flipping their eyelids inside-out, and pushing chewed-up bubble gum through their lips are peppered throughout the film.

By focusing so much on impressing the people who don’t like her, Kayla isolates herself from the people who truly love her and want to spend time with her. Finally, after a series of missteps including a harrowing conversation with a high school boy who pressures her to do something she doesn’t want to do, Kayla decides to open up to her father and let him in on her struggle. “It’s so easy to love you,” Kayla’s father, played by Josh Hamilton, assures his daughter in the most inspirational Dad Monologue to grace the big screen since Call Me By Your Name.

Eighth Grade joins other recent dramas with young protagonists like The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker) and Spanish film Summer 1993 (dir. Carla Simón) in successfully portraying pain through the eyes of a child. Under Burnham’s masterful direction, 15-year-old Elsie Fisher’s powerful portrayal of the character, with her stumbling speech and nervous quietness, perfectly captures the essence of an anxiety-ridden teenage girl. Directing children is an admirable feat, and Burnham has done so with aplomb by choosing to highlight the fun quirks of the children he cast in his breakout film. The hilariously eccentric character Gabe, for example, could not have been brought to fruition had Burnham not taken care to embrace and highlight actor Jake Ryan’s real-life idiosyncratic personality on film.

Overall, Bo Burnham’s feature directing debut is an outstanding success featuring all the hilarity and heartbreak of being an average, everyday, middle-school girl. With stellar performances, gut-wrenching emotion, and an ultimate message of optimism, Eighth Grade is a film that people of all ages can enjoy.

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