No one in their right mind wants to go back to eighth grade. The chances are you were a victim, and would prefer to have middle school wiped from your memory altogether. Or maybe you victimized others ...

*In “Eighth Grade,” Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) is starting her last week of middle school, and graduation can’t come soon enough for her. After all, the lonely, 13 year-old has just been voted “Most ...

One of the higher-profile movies to play at this year’s Phoenix Film Festival was Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham’s chronicle of a few days in the life of Kayla (Elsie Fisher), a middle school kid, as she ...

NEW YORK – Take it from Elsie Fisher: The movie "Eighth Grade" is a lot like the real thing. The young actress started shooting the film a week after graduating from middle school, making the ups and ...

The movie does have a strong comedic performance from Fisher as a girl who can be talkative and direct when it comes to the camera on her laptop but who is awkward, quiet and shy in social situations.

It’s hard to predict who will feel more disquieted watching Eighth Grade, Generation Z or its parents. Writer-director Bo Burnham, who rose to fame as an Internet sensation, skewers the very ...