Film for the Maypole
Dir: Bo Burnham, 2018, USA, 93 mins, Cert:15
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Thu 14 April 2022 // 19:30
/ Cinema
Tickets: £7/5/3/0
In this brilliant coming-of-age comedy, an introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
As Mark Kermode writes in his five star review of the film, 'for all its razor-sharp cultural accuracy, the real genius of Eighth Grade is its universality – an honesty and compassion that cut across generational boundaries'