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Lady Bird

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A teenager (Saoirse Ronan) navigates a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of an eventful and poignant senior year of high school.
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Lady Bird delivers fresh insights about the turmoil of adolescence -- and reveals writer-director Greta Gerwig as a fully formed filmmaking talent.

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Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting In every example where resolution or a character epiphany occurs, you can point to how Gerwig undercuts those moments in ways that less honest, conventional movies would. Rated: 5/5 Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Anupama Chopra Film Companion Lady Bird combines wisdom and tenderness, humor and grace. It's light-footed without being lightweight. And it captures, with great feeling, the turbulence of a girl growing up. I can't recommend it enough. Rated: 4/5 Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Robert Daniels 812filmreviews Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, Lady Bird, is the millisecond of possibility, the speck of unflinching nerve, which might only occur once in our lives. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 5, 2018 Full Review JD Duran InSession Film Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are a dynamic duo that will stick with me for a long time. Gerwig’s direction is astounding for a first-timer in how she demonstrates precision and control... Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Ankit Ojha Cinema Elite Greta Gerwig is on fire—if her filmography isn’t proof enough of her seemingly limitless talent, “Lady Bird” will be. Rated: 4/5 Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Brendan Cassidy InSession Film Her comedic timing that makes Lady Bird one of the most earnest coming-of-age films of our time, and also one of the funniest... Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Drake 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/29/23 Full Review Jay V This mediocre coming-of-age story contains some great elements but ultimately fell short. The jokes were only mildly amusing. This project needed tightening in every corner. The heroine's character arc is interesting, but her social rise is unrealistic, especially given the fact that she is played by a skilled actor who unfortunately lacks the looks to pull off the role in a believable way, especially as to romantic objectives & social climbing depicted in the film. The best part of this movie is the tense mother-daughter relationship. More of that and less of the rest would have made a stronger story. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/18/24 Full Review Anastasia B Very weird film. It's good, but very uncomfortable film to sit through. It gives of a cold vibe and is slightly boring, nevertheless I thing it does show the reality of a teenagers life, contrary to the glitz-and-glam many other movies and TV shows tend to portray. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/09/24 Full Review JUSTIN DON CORLEONE THIS IS A DEFINITE MUST SEE FOR ANY FAN OF FILM/ MOVIES..GRETA GERWIG AT HER ABSOLUTE BEST. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/07/24 Full Review Fabrícia F Desafios que permeiam o fim da adolescência e o início da fase adulta, são marcados pela quebra de expectativas, desdobramentos e conflitos parentais que levam a mudanças em todos os aspectos. E esse filme soube retratar perfeitamente cada momento, tornando-o identificável para o público. Nota dez! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/02/24 Full Review Peyton C As a girl in college, this movie was amazing. So relatable and honest and cruel. Writing this review still crying. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A teenager (Saoirse Ronan) navigates a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of an eventful and poignant senior year of high school.
Director
Greta Gerwig
Producer
Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neill
Screenwriter
Greta Gerwig
Distributor
A24
Production Co
Scott Rudin Productions, A24
Rating
R (Language|Brief Graphic Nudity|Sexual Content|Teen Partying)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 22, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 13, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$48.9M
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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