Lady Bird

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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 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/29/23 Full Review M L I watched this movie because of the acress Saoirse, so far I liked every movie I watched and she starred in. Sadly this story was so boring that Saoirse's talent could not improve or even Charlamet's apperance did not help. To be honest some weeks passed since I watched Ladybird and nothing about the plot stuck to my head. Won't watch again. It gets some Stars because I sat through the movie instead of tuning out Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/09/24 Full Review Chloe K Watching this as a teenage girl was something else Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/07/24 Full Review Ivana J I don't understand why there is so many great reviews. This movie showed normal process of growing up, but on a really not either special or interesting way. I wouldn't recommend it. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/06/24 Full Review libby b This movie made me cry. Watching an authentic portrayal of a female teenage experience of growing up and what that means; hoping for more, swearing just because to make you sound cool, the juxtposition from wanting to be a grown up but still being like a child and so much more.I think if this relates to you you get it. The portal of a mother and daughter relationship was so beautiful and so painfully true. I hope that more like this is to come out - Movies that make you think laugh love and reflect = Love means affection Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/20/24 Full Review Daniel G Didn't quite live up to its fame, though it was a well-made coming of age story. Cleide thought it too tame - matinée fare - when it could have been even more intense in all aspects of mother-daughter and romantic relationships. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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