20 Best Indie Movies Of 2018

2. Eighth Grade

Coming-of-age high school movies are a dime a dozen in Hollywood, but how often do they ever feel this crushingly real? Pretty much never.

Bo Burnham's directorial debut is a discomfortingly authentic look at the utter horror show that is the high school experience, realised in all of its brutal awkwardness and anxiety.

Elsie Fisher gives one of the year's best performances as Kayla, a perennially awkward yet sweet eighth grader struggling to find her place in the world while dealing with all the usual bulls*** the Earth flings at any 13-year-old.

An honest and at times stressful examination of the pressures facing today's youth - particular young women - this film captures the current zeitgeist like no other movie in recent memory, yet also has huge relatability regardless of your own age or gender.