Smart, funny and emotional, Lady Bird is a Trojan horse movie – sneaking its way into hearts and minds via well-worn tropes.
A coming-of-age story like no other, Lady Bird is smart, emotional, funny and completely original. Rarely has a directorial debut been so assured, so singular and so heartwarmingly affecting.
Wise, witty and breezing along life's highway on a blast of sunny optimism, this is just the film to banish those winter blues.
A perfectly formed delight.
It turns out to be one of the best American coming-of-age films since Barry Levinson’s Diner. Written and directed by Greta Gerwig, it offers an utterly winning mix of humour, poignancy and sharp-eyed social observation.
Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are tremendous in Greta Gerwig’s moving and gloriously funny film about growing up, mother-daughter relationships and the anxiety of separation.
Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are electric as warring daughter and mother in Greta Gerwig’s beautifully observed comedy-drama.
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