Wow... Eighth Grade really suffered from old people not understanding what the movie was about. It was described to me as "a movie told entirely through Instagram posts." That's not true at all. It's actually a beautifully handled, introspective, and wholly engaging study of being 13 in modern America. And you don't need to be 13 to understand it or enjoy it, nor do you need to be born in the era of the internet and social media. The movie transcends all of that. It's a quiet, occasionally disturbing, and haunting portrait of a teenager.