Saturday, March 2, 2019

Eighth Grade


Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade is so cool in its depiction of adolescent terror in the age of smartphone ubiquity, shallow attachments and devastating missteps as packaged in Elsie Fisher's phenomenally naturalistic performance as Kayla, whose life is an admixture of desire and dread.
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