Lady Bird

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Drake Aug 28, 2023 A coming-of-age teen dramedy, from the POV of a sub-upper-middle-class Catholic white millennial from California—so I could plenty empathize, and I do appreciate Greta Gerwig representing our generation on the screen, but those intersectionalities mean the conflicts can only be so much, that they're all of a nature of which they'll sort themselves out with the passing of time, and so many dramatic scenes based on them come off as melodramatic performances from the temporality of a teenager (when there's so time & again a dipping POV following the mother, who should be wiser). All that said, the writing is a quite competent Hollywood 3-act screenplay, with plenty of chuckle-inducing lines, multiple tear-rendering deliveries of monologue-y lines, and a rollicking story to fill a feature-length. Watching in 2023 a film from 2017 set in 2002-03 is uncanny, but this is a worthy addition to the canon for the 21st-century's progression of what John Hughes could muster in the '80s, and the hipster touches (e.g. the Joan Didion epigraph the local band) and depictions of life for an adolescent in the '00s stirred in me that romantic yearning for a simpler time of pre-cynic enjoyment of social living. A full dose of emotional content to invest one's bit of time into. See more Dominick C @RT95041678 Sep 27, 2026 I honestly LOVED this movie. I wanted it to last longer. if it lasted 5 hours I would still be watching. the atmosphere and characters were cozy and relatable, and it had a good story line about the complicated relationship of a daughter and mother. I'm not gonna give any spoilers, go watch it. NOW See more Nadia D @ratedbynadiaa Sep 19, 2026 It’s and amazing movie that show some reality for teenager in the 2000s and I feel it show a female lead finding her true self and finding the right place and people and embracing it! See more Robert P @Superbad Sep 6, 2026 Lady Bird = a *4 and 1/2* star movie. See more Dominic B @RT83360345 Sep 4, 2026 Saoirse Ronan's portrayal of the quirky, strong and vulnerable teenager Christine aka Lady Bird is great. So much feeling and expression. And it's not just her, the acting is generally top, her parents and friends are beautifully rendered and even minor characters like the teachers and nuns at her catholic school are fully fleshed out. This is a story that on paper should not have interested me at all, and I only watched it because of the tomatoes score. Glad I did! See more Marco L @decatur555 Aug 25, 2026 Lady Bird does something extraordinarily difficult: it makes an ordinary teenage life feel completely important without ever inflating it. Greta Gerwig builds Christine through tiny choices, arguments, friendships, embarrassment about money, first relationships and the desperate desire to leave Sacramento. Saoirse Ronan is wonderful because Lady Bird is never idealized; she is funny, selfish, vulnerable, cruel, confident and lost, often within minutes. Laurie Metcalf is equally brilliant, and their mother-daughter relationship gives the film its emotional center: love and conflict existing at exactly the same time. Gerwig's writing and editing are so precise that almost nothing feels unnecessary. There are no grand speeches and no artificial drama. Just people, moments and the realization that sometimes we only understand what home means after leaving it. It looks simple. It is anything but. For me, it is perfect. See more Read all reviews

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