Eighth Grade
This quietly powerful indie drama follows a shy 13-year-old girl through her final week of middle school, capturing social anxiety and the pressures of growing up in the age of social media with remarkable honesty. Its R rating comes from frequent strong language and several frank scenes involving teenage sexual curiosity, making it a film clearly aimed at older teens and adults rather than younger children.
Best suited for mature teenagers (14 and up) and adults; not recommended for younger children.
If you’d rather skip
A sex education video plays in class; a male student is implied to be masturbating under his shirt during the screening.
A boy gives the middle finger; social exclusion and clique dynamics are on display.
The school runs a lockdown drill; an authority figure pretends to shoot students who did not hide; one student has a fake bloody mark on her forehead.