Lady Bird
5 Oscar Nominations
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Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
What critics thought
Gerwig's directorial debut earned near-unanimous critical enthusiasm, with reviewers singling out Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf's performances and Gerwig's ability to balance comedy with emotional honesty. The one notable point of friction was whether the mother-daughter dynamic reads as loving-if-fraught or genuinely abusive — a question at least one critic argued the film's warmth deliberately obscures.
“big-screen perfection ... exceptionally well-written, full of wordplay and lively argument. Every line sounds like something a person might actually say, which means that the movie is also exceptionally well acted.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“Gerwig the actress skillfully pivots between the wacky and the poignant, so it's no surprise that Gerwig the auteur so delicately balances hilarity and heartbreak”
Alonso Duralde·TheWrap
“modestly scaled but creatively ambitious”
Todd McCarthy·The Hollywood Reporter
“There's no level of acting on a higher plane than what [Metcalf] and [Letts] achieve in this film. This is what greatness looks like.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorGreta Gerwig
StarringSaoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet
ComposerJon Brion
Lady Bird
5 Oscar Nominations
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
What critics thought
Gerwig's directorial debut earned near-unanimous critical enthusiasm, with reviewers singling out Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf's performances and Gerwig's ability to balance comedy with emotional honesty. The one notable point of friction was whether the mother-daughter dynamic reads as loving-if-fraught or genuinely abusive — a question at least one critic argued the film's warmth deliberately obscures.
“big-screen perfection ... exceptionally well-written, full of wordplay and lively argument. Every line sounds like something a person might actually say, which means that the movie is also exceptionally well acted.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“Gerwig the actress skillfully pivots between the wacky and the poignant, so it's no surprise that Gerwig the auteur so delicately balances hilarity and heartbreak”
Alonso Duralde·TheWrap
“modestly scaled but creatively ambitious”
Todd McCarthy·The Hollywood Reporter
“There's no level of acting on a higher plane than what [Metcalf] and [Letts] achieve in this film. This is what greatness looks like.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorGreta Gerwig
StarringSaoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet
ComposerJon Brion
Rent/Purchase