“Eighth Grade” is an A+ Examination of Middle School, Zits and All

Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), the 13-year-old at the center of “Eighth Grade”, is a teen with a YouTube channel. She has only a handful of followers, but the young girl wants to give others her pearls of wisdom. Kayla cajoles young girls, via self-shot videos filmed in her bedroom, to be themselves and act confident. […]