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Eighth Grade

ComedyDrama

Directed by Bo Burnham

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school. From TMDB

89 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 17, 2026 · How this works

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Eighth Grade is a 2018 comedy drama film, directed by Bo Burnham, starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton and Emily Robinson.

  • 75 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
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  • Paul Ford @ftrain.comBluesky · Apr 6, 2025

    I watched the movie Eighth Grade with my eighth grade daughter and started to tear up a little when the father and daughter connect over the fire pit, and my daughter looked at me and went OH MY GOD ARE YOU HAVING EMOTIONS and laughed at me for the rest of the movie.

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  • John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2024

    Fine, I’ll do it. But I will once again remind you that if what makes a great horror movie is an overwhelming sense of dread, deep empathy with a lead character creating a visceral fear that they may suffer harm, the best horror movie of the last ten years is EIGHTH GRADE.

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  • Thibault @steinbeck207.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    #IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1- a song for your first day in school It was my daughter’s first day back to school in eighth grade today, so I chose this. From Bo Burnham’s movie- Eighth Grade. She is the coolest girl in the world to me! youtu.be/NSTskvHXjRs?...

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  • John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2024

    I will but any horror movie sequence of the last decade up against the pool party in EIGHTH GRADE.

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  • John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    Similarly for “not a horror movie but a horror movie” for maintained stress levels and dread for the protagonist — EIGHTH GRADE is top ten.

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  • Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    Happy #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Superman 2025, Queen and Slim, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Eighth Grade.

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  • Breetz Rapid Transit @breetz.zoneBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 90s: Last Action Hero 00s: Primer 10s: Eighth Grade 20s: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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  • jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2025

    writing about bo burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE was such a joy. lovely film. jourdainsearles.com/b-word/what-...

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  • loz @turquoisehexagon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Last four films watched - Nocebo (2022), Sirāt (2025), Strictly Ballroom (1992), Eighth Grade (2018) @letterboxd.social #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #films #films2026 ❤️📽️🎬🎥

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    Movie #215 #NowWatching Eighth Grade on #Netflix …. I’m watching this movie because I’ve been dealing with anxiety problems and I wanted to see how Bo Burnham handle it. #Filmsky #Moviesky #August

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  • Glendos Fen @glennmuir.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    I posted a version of this in your discord but I'll post it here too: "Everyone is 12" theory politics must logically mean that "Everywhere is Middle School" theory of society. And ask yourselves, do you look back on those years entirely fondly? Do you? Watch the film Eighth Grade w/o cringing.

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  • Sam Goldstein @samschuelstein.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2025

    Once Beginners Sideways Little Miss Sunshine Beasts of the Southern Wild Moonlight Whiplash The Last Black Man in San Francisco Eighth Grade Garden State I would rather the film industry spend all the money to produce countless indie gems like these than even consider one more Marvel movie. 😭

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  • cassie - FREE PPV OF @filmq33n.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    Idk if ya’ll can tell from my banner but Eighth Grade is my absolute fave a24 film ✨

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  • Yōsh 🎃 HallowYeen 🇵🇸✡️😷✊🔥 @jjorbles.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2023

    10 movies to get to know me, unranked A Knight's Tale Scott Pilgrim vs the World The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Space Jam The Last Jedi First Blood Eighth Grade The LEGO Movie Detention (2011) The Matrix

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  • Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    Watched Eighth Grade this evening. I liked it a lot. Recommended. eggplant.place/@m7/posts/63...

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  • Matthew Turner @filmfan1971.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2025

    FILM RECOMMENDATION: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, my joint favourite film (with Wild Rose) of 2019. It’s available on @bbciplayer.bsky.social for 29 days, as of today. #FilmRecs25

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  • Dr Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Another Cinema Worms' mini review from the Edinburgh International Film Festival with the hilarious and offbeat Extra Geography 🏳️‍🌈🥝 (those emojis will make sense when you see the review). Truly a film for those of us who loved Bottoms and Eighth Grade!

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  • Nightmare On Elm StreetsAJed @streetsajed.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2024

    Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films: M: Monty Python and the Holy Grail O: One Hour Photo V: Vertigo I: I, Tonya E: Eighth Grade

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Oct 2, 2026

    Fun Fact: this is NOT a film you should watch while sitting on the sofa between your partner and your dad on your 40th birthday 🙃 #Comedon #EighthGrade

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  • NatAsh Snyder Williams @anateforfate.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 90’s - Toy Story 00’s - Spider-Man 2 10’s - Eighth Grade 20’s - Everything Everywhere All At Once

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  • fish 🖤🎼🪶🍎 (finnspo💚) @unrequitedluv4life.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    It’s coincidentally called Eighth Grade :) it’s directed by Bo Burnham and it’s really really good but it’s so weird seeing something that feels like exactly how you were a couple years ago in a movie bruh 🥹🥹🥹

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  • Faithless Grace @faithlessgrace.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    Adjacent to this, Bo Burnham had an excellent comment about the colonization and commodification of attention during a panel discussion around the time of his movie Eighth Grade www.tiktok.com/@living.that...

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  • #1 daughter (of the stars) @janandoah.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2025

    Eighth Grade (2018) they should remake this movie every 5 years or so so that we have a succinct historical record of all the cringy stuff different generations of middle schooler are getting up to boxd.it/9OUbCJ

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  • Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    Film-wise: at 8pm, A Shot In The Dark on Sky Arts. At 9pm, Aliens on Great Movies or Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade on Film4. At 10pm, Blue Velvet on BBC2. At 10.30pm, Eighth Grade on BBC3. At 11.50pm, Quatermass & The Pit on Sky Arts. At 11.55pm, The Elephant Man on BBC2 #telly

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  • Joe @thetallestjew.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2025

    finally getting around to watching Eighth Grade (2018) (yes i know. i am late to this party.) and i think it’s a real testament to how effectively the movie evokes the discomfort Kayla feels that I’m spending a bunch of time not looking at the screen out of secondhand embarrassment

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  • Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.comBluesky · Aug 20, 2024

    He is also a film director and actor. He directed "Eighth Grade," and co-starred in "Promising Young Woman" as the iconic Nice Guy.

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on July 13! What's your fave? 1. Ghost 2. The Cat Returns 3. Eighth Grade 4. Sexy Beast Check out all 140 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama

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  • Alluring Lolita Angelic Nicole @nicoletenshi.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    Just finished Bo Burnham's film Eighth Grade Very good film, I never want to watch it again. It made my stomach hurt really bad

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  • fish 🖤🎼🪶🍎 (finnspo💚) @unrequitedluv4life.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    omg please please please I LOVE BO BURNHAM IVE SEEN EVERY COMEDY SPECIAL HES PUT OUT AND I LOVE ZACH STONE IS GONNA BE FAMOUS AND THE MOVIE EIGHTH GRADE PLEASSSS

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  • cheyanne ❥ commissions open! @mzch3y.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Round 3 - Saint Frances vs Eighth Grade Winner - Eighth Grade Finally an even matchup. Both movies are so funny, heart-breaking, uncomfortable and hopeful. Saint Frances' cast are so great but I think Eighth Grade's authentic and relatable depiction of social anxiety clinches it for me

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  • oh, carrots. @ohcarrots.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    Just cried my way through Eighth Grade. Have never related to a movie parent more. A beautiful little film.

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  • Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    also the use of Orinoco Flow in the film Eighth Grade as the lead character obsessively scrolls on her phone is majestic

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  • Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Film-wise: at 9pm, The Godfather on BBC4, Pale Rider on ITV4 or Beast on Film4. At 10.05pm, Eighth Grade on BBC3. At 10.30pm, Bowling For Columbine on Sky Docs. At 11.45pm, The Godfather Part III on BBC4. At 12.40am, Tomorrow on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. At 1am, Another Round on C4 #telly

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  • Carl Bleaching @plaidman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    New Queens Video episode: Eighth Grade Brian and I discuss Eighth Grade (that's the movie, not the grade). We also talk about the announced cast of Avengers: Doomsday, and review Severance, The Front Room, and Spirited Away. Listen now, links below! See you at the movies…

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  • Tim Pierce @unchi.orgBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    One of the most disturbing scenes I've seen in film in the last few years was in EIGHTH GRADE, where an older teenager is giving a thirteen-year-old a ride home, but stops the car and pressures her into playing Truth or Dare. No physical violence, no nudity, but skin-crawlingly horrifying.

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  • Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    I’ve had good luck with a couple 2024 films recently: Didi (really want to put into conversation with Eighth Grade in my digital culture film course); All Shall be Well (my hypothetical queer cinema course is calling. Shout-out to my favorite subscription: Criterion).

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  • Horrificallie @grissallia.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Once a month we take part in “Montage-a-trois”, a group of friends watching the same movie at the organiser’s home in Sydney, and our home in Melbourne, all voting on next month’s movie from a set of six movies. This month, Eighth Grade on Netflix (which has horrible sound balance issues)

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  • Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    ooh. had an idea for when we @tombrazelton.bsky.social chat that could work as a podcast segment: the two of us who didn’t choose the movie recommend equally good (or better) movies with a similar vibe. e.g. if you pick this movie on week, Tom and I might say Edge of Seventeen and Eighth Grade.

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  • Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2024

    There's a scene in the (excellent) movie Eighth Grade that captures this experience perfectly--a montage of the protagonist getting sucked into a bad Instagram spiral, set to Enya's "Orinoco Flow".

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  • Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    I’m probably the last person on the planet to watch EIGHTH GRADE, but, wow, what a sweet, tenderhearted movie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_...

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  • Citizen Fur @citizenfur.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    Oh Eighth Grade is a tremendous film, highly recommended

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  • Jake O'Lantern @puntrash.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    Top 5 movie dads in no particular order: Charlie Chaplin in The Kid Josh Hamilton in Eighth Grade Josh Hartnett in Trap Ryan O'Neal in Paper Moon Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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  • Thomas M. Willett @thomasmwillett.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    Otherwise, that's gotta be the second YouTuber turned director movie that I've seen in theaters after Eighth Grade. Hope Backrooms lives up to that home run.

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  • Adam the HipNerd @adamzn.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    Eighth Grade, District 9, Ten Little Indians, Oceans 11. I have more of these cans, so I will be making more movie themed clocks. Let me know what movie genres or other ideas you may have.

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  • Seem Okay Studio [Creating STORYBOOK DARK] @seem-okay-studio.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    Eighth Grade. Great little coming of age film.

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  • Stu Can Play At That Game @btnstu.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Eighth Grade is on TV. And I still don't know why Bo Burnham hasn't made another film yet.

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  • NatAsh Snyder Williams @anateforfate.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2025

    #15MoviesToGetToKnowMe Toy Story Singin in the Rain Jaws Eighth Grade Spider-Man 2 Before Sunset The LEGO Movie The Dark Knight Blade Runner When Harry Met Sally Up The Matrix Everything Everywhere All At Once Hugo Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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  • Major Problem @[email protected]Mastodon · Jul 8, 2025

    [Title] Eighth Grade [Author] Bo Burnham [Year] 2018 [Type] Movie | Comedy | Drama [My rating] 6.5⭐ in 10 [Opinion] Bo Burnham shows again the cruel reality of teenagers who have the bad luck of being naturally akward during this social media reality. It's clearly made for an younger audience and for good reason. It's acessible, funny and at even has some heartbreaking moments. In my opinion, worth the watch if it's a theme you find interesting #BoBurnham #EighthGrade

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  • Clint S. @c-lint.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    2nd day in a row a Denny post has me starting the day thinking about the very good 2018 movie Eighth Grade.

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  • Clint S. @c-lint.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    I remember after watching the movie Eighth Grade thinking about how happy I am I didn’t grow up in the social media age, and it’s only gotten worse since then. Significantly worse at that. And the movie is only about 6 or 7 years old.

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  • Carl Bleaching @plaidman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2025

    Coming tomorrow on Queens Video: Eighth Grade (I fucking love this movie) Follow now so you don’t miss it! Links below…

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  • Spooka Dončić 🎃👻 @blakesquest.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2025

    It’s a polarizing movie from what I understand, but the dad in Eighth Grade is one of the best recent examples of positive masculinity I can think of. Citation:

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  • Daisy Chain @thewindupbird.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    My fiancé hated the movie Eighth Grade because there was so much cringe and second hand embarrassment it was physically and mentally painful for him to endure and I’m like I loved it because it perfectly encapsulates all of that feeling of trying hard and not being received how you want to be

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  • Natsfixations @natsfixations.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    IM GONNA BE SICK. I STARTED THE MOVIE REVIEW CHANNEL THE SUMMER AFTER EIGHTH GRADE!!!! NEED I REMIND YOU WHAT MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME IS??? (it's eighth grade)

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  • Shauna O'Meara @shaunaomeara.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2025

    Watched Aftersun for the first time last night. Such a beautiful, subtle coming-of-age film set against the backdrop of the quiet parental sufferings that kids detect but don't quite have the full words or experience for. It felt akin to something like The Quiet Girl or even Eighth Grade. #filmsky

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  • Good Skeet Pete @peterhassett.netBluesky · Jan 2, 2025

    Top rated are The Iron Claw, Eighth Grade, Lady Bird, and Moonlight. Stop Making Sense was re-released by A24 but I'm not counting it. Lowest rated movie I recognized was Y2K, which was fun actually.

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  • CW Miller @cwmillerwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2024

    #FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥📽️ Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs 7/20 Eighth Grade

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  • Soupliss @soupliss.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    49. Juno It was just ok, I think I like Eighth Grade a lot more as a "relatable" awkward teen coming of age movie.

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  • NatAsh Snyder Williams @anateforfate.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2024

    What movie made you ugly cry? I’ve cried at movies, but I don’t think anything made me just a complete mess as much as the capsule burning scene from Eighth Grade (2018).

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  • Sredni @sredni.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Eighth Grade 2018 Billed as “comedy”; in actuality, gripping psychological horror for fathers. #filmsky #movies #film

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