For its first two thirds, I found Bo Burnham’s buzzy new film Eighth Grade to be just about as open, awkward, and heartfelt as I was hoping it’d be. The story of Kayla Day, just about to graduate from the hell of middle school, deals frankly with social awkwardness, anxiety, budding sexuality, and the pressure…
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Favorite Films of 2018
(Spoiler warning for all the films on this list.) What is there even to say about 2018? It was miserable. The sense of exhaustion I and many others had in 2017 was just compounded, endlessly. I don’t think I have to recount the long, long list of awful things that happened this year, because we’re…
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