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Lady Bird

2017

Greta Gerwig

Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, John Karna ...

6.6

27,314

Comedy. Drama The adventures of a student living in Northern California for a year. Saoirse Ronan stars as an artistically inclined young woman trying to define herself in the shadow of her mother (Laurie Metcalf) and searching for an escape route from her hometown of Sacramento.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[A] modest, miraculous low-budget gem that takes on a life of its own (...) The real surprise is just how honest and personal this film proves to be (...) Treating each of its characters with respect"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A stellar first solo flight by Greta Gerwig (...) Modestly scaled but creatively ambitious, it succeeds on its own terms as a piquant audience pleaser."
		Tomris Laffly Time Out	"A film filled with heart, smarts and the wry wisdom of distance (...) 'Lady Bird' captures a recent era with precision and a hint of nondistracting nostalgia (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"A promising first film (...) The performances are all aces (...) The real reason to see the film is Ronan, who, as always, is fantastic."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A touching coming-of-age story that makes an old formula feel new again (...) 'Lady Bird' is both snarky and sincere — a touching, markedly feminine ode to growing up"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Saoirse Ronan shines in Greta Gerwig’s deeply personal directorial debut (...) 'Lady Bird' is fun to spend time with. But the larger drama of the character’s mild arc (...) doesn’t have all that much heft without its meta context."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Lady Bird' is big-screen perfection (...) If you pay the right kind of attention to 'Lady Bird' (...) you will almost certainly love it. It’s hard not to."
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Exquisite, flawed (...) [It] is full of exquisite dialogue (...) 'Lady Bird', daring, distinctive, and personal in text and theme, is recognizably conventional in texture and style."
		Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"This is a coming of age storyline that you’ve seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching."
		Susan Wloszczyna rogerebert.com	"The opening moments of 'Lady Bird' accomplish so much so quickly, it takes your breath away (...) Hardly a false step is taken by Greta Gerwig (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		A.A. Dowd AV Club	"'Lady Bird' is something truly special: a coming-of-age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché."

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