You've probably noticed my use of quotation marks in the title of this review, and they are not there because I have suddenly forgotten how grammar works - though chances are that I never fully knew in the first place - but to denote that this is not a review of a film since 8 is not a cinematic work, but a filmed play. In fact, it's so uncinematic that you don't need to see it in a cinema: the whole play is up on YouTube (and you will find it embedded at the bottom of this post). Yet it stars some of the biggest stars in the world, was written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) and directed by Rob Reiner. For those reasons alone it'd be worth discussing, but considering that it deals with one of the most important and controversial issues in American politics today, it almost demands to be written about.