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.