Bo knows YouTube. As a comedic lyricist, Burnham certainly toys with convention as his peculiar piano rifts garner laughs and hits. Yet, he uploads the opposite perspective in Eighth Grade. And this irony cradles a bustling narrative in an online world.

Kayla (Fisher), reticently slogging through the end of middle school, whips up a series of analgesic videos with an unwatchable tagline to achieve any sort of recognition. The video cut-ins introduce the chronological and fraught happenings during the final week sprinkled with playful intrusiveness from dad, Mark (Hamilton), as his acknowledgement of her anxious irrationality is aces; especially when she is about to throw all her hopes and dreams into the fire.

Burnham does well to introduce typical adversarial situations that a timorous kid could encounter, including an attempt to rise above the raised noses of the popular girls, Kennedy (Oliviere) and Steph (Mullins). It’s a bit of box ticking and scene stuffing but the kids are spot on. And Kayla finds her acceptance within the unexpected comfort of her humorous interactions with Gabe (Ryan).

As we know, a film reliant on screens on the movie screen is tricky but Eighth Grade cleverly scrolls through 3.79 napkins out of 5.

FC icon Tommy Cruise knows not the color of a green screen. The palpable relief upon realizing his health after flying over a car hood infuses Fallout, and the entire MI series, with a beautiful authenticity. And, as he leaps across tall buildings in a single bound to stop Superman, or, well, the guy who plays him, we applaud.

The Apostles, disciples of the Syndicate and bent on creating a new world from chaos, now possess plutonium owing to Ethan Hunt’s (Cruise) unbridled devotion to his friends. Á présent, Hunt and the IMF find themselves in a bit of a cornichon with our hero spinning around the Arc de Triomphe while evading actual police.

And let’s two-face it, Ilsa (Furgeson) and her seeming alliance to every faction and organization is the new story. She is selfish yet compassionate; as brutally honest as she is shady and her relationship with Ethan teases from the many chicanes the film enters.

Ultimately, Chris McQuarrie’s return as director lends continuity to character, story and style that we hold onto while all has gone, or is going, haywire. In making the impossible barely possible, Fallout rises into elite status with 4.76 napkins out of 5.