Kayla Day is a baffling ball of hormones, anger and self-doubt. The 13-year-old social-media addict could be the poster child for 2018 — a fact that’s both high praise for “Eighth Grade ...

Kayla’s (Elsie Fisher) only real friend in “Eighth Grade” is her single father, Mark. (Josh Hamilton). This image released by A24 shows Elsie Fisher in a scene from “Eighth Grade.” Elsie ...

There’s a scene in Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” where the main character, Kayla, scores an invite to a pool party thrown by a popular peer and attended by everyone the shy girl wishes she ...

Critics Pick Film Review: ‘Eighth Grade’ Discover newcomer Elsie Fisher in, like, a totally spot-on, you know, portrait of Millennial angst and stuff, from first-time director Bo Burnham.

2018-07-30T12:36:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of a ... Fisher filmed "Eighth Grade" during the summer after her own eighth grade.

Eighth Grade had momentum going into its bow, and the A24 release delivered a spectacular start over the weekend, taking the mantle for best opening weekend per theater average of 2018.

And since “Eighth Grade” isn’t something that’s even a borderline call for the MPAA, or worth A24 even pushing back on, it may be time to reconsider where these lines are being drawn.

Elsie Fisher delivers a heartbreakingly vulnerable performance as an awkward, introverted teenage girl enduring the final week of "Eighth Grade" (2018, R).The directorial debut of comedian Bo ...

Writer-director Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” is a sweet and intelligent and sometimes absolutely heartbreaking slice of modern-day, eighth-grade life, which, in some ways (hello social media ...