Eighth Grade (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7014006/



During the final week of 8th grade, a girl named Kayla realizes that she has no friends, she is not popular, she has no self confidence, boys her age might as well be extra-terrestrial aliens to her.

She loves her dad but at the same time she doesn't want him around asking her a lot of questions when she is trying to have a social life on the internet and in school and to make things even more complicated and worse, high school is just around the corner.

A sincere and sadly at times brutally honest and harsh look at the state of today's middle schoolers and their culture today:

where most of them have cell phones and their own accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube;

and their personal struggles to survive in a digital world where every day for them is an online popularity contest among their peers.

There were even 2 scenes showing how the middle schoolers were being drilled by the police and by their teachers on what to do during an active shooter situation: it's sad that the world has come to this where an innocent child can't even be safe in school.

If 15 year old actress Elsie Fisher, who played 13 year old character Kayla, doesn't get nominated for an Academy Awards, everyone at the Academy can go to that place deep deep underground !!

This movie was rated 99% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and for once, I agree with them.

I give it a very enthusiastic:

5/5