Movie Review: A Honest Portrayal Of Adolescence In 'eighth Grade'

By Al Alexander/For the Patriot Ledger, Winchester Star: Movies
Thu, 07/19/2018 - 5:51pm

It’s billed as a comedy, and by most accounts, one of the year’s best. But for me, a survivor of the vicious jungle known as junior high school, Bo Burnham’s perceptive and deceptively deep “Eighth Grade” is a pure horror show.“Hereditary”? Tinker toys. “A Quiet Place”? Amateur hour. This, fright fans, is the stuff of shake-in-your-boots terror.

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