In 2018, Movies Finally Got the Internet Right—Well, Mostly

In a year full of gnarly horror movies—Hereditary, Halloween, Vice—no film prompted me to squirm away from the screen quite as frequently as the teen drama Eighth Grade. Bo Burnham’s directorial debut follows the genial but despondent Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she not only navigates middle school’s judging adults, preening peers, and hallway hell, but …

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