Eighth grade brilliantly dodges the clichés that can come with classic coming of age movies by giving the viewer doses of cringe-inducing, yet comedic moments that perfectly portray what it is actually like to be in middle school.
All in 2019 Sundance Films
Eighth grade brilliantly dodges the clichés that can come with classic coming of age movies by giving the viewer doses of cringe-inducing, yet comedic moments that perfectly portray what it is actually like to be in middle school.
Maybe it was the coffee , but I was shaky and didn’t really know how to digest such a heavy movie. My fellow co-bloggers felt the same and expressed that the movie was “hard to watch” and that the film “had no real point”.
I sat next to my friend and we squeezed each other’s hands. Since seeing this film as an option on our list, I had been counting the hours until I got to see “Knock Down The House,” a movie following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Amy Vilela, and Paula Jean Swearington in their campaigns for the Democratic primaries.