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Eighth grade brilliantly dodges the clichés that can come with classic coming of age movies by giving the viewer doses of cringe-inducing, yet comedic moments that perfectly portray what it is actually like to be in middle school.
Maybe it was the coffee , but I was shaky and didn’t really know how to digest such a heavy movie. My fellow co-bloggers felt the same and expressed that the movie was “hard to watch” and that the film “had no real point”.
I sat next to my friend and we squeezed each other’s hands. Since seeing this film as an option on our list, I had been counting the hours until I got to see “Knock Down The House,” a movie following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Amy Vilela, and Paula Jean Swearington in their campaigns for the Democratic primaries.