Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

alextatterson-47650 Alright, I'm sure a lot of you who have not seen the movie will be confused by the movie. And I'm sure those who have seen it maybe didn't think of 9/11 as one of the major themes as I did. But I wanted to write this review on how the the theme of September eleventh was intermingled in this story. First, this story takes place during Lady's senior school year in 2002-2003. This makes the events of 9/11 still fresh and raw in everyone mind. When Lady tells her family that she is interested in going to a New York university rather than a California one, this upsets her mother. At first I only thought she was upset because of the out of state tuition and the distance between her and her daughter. But after Lady is accepted, right before she goes to school, she teller her mother that she knows shes going to be far and she know that terrorism is a looming threat but she needs to go to wear she feels like she will belong. In another scene, when her family drives her to the airport I realized another obvious factor in her mothers fear; air travel. Just as many Americans did not feel comfortable buying plane tickets in 2002/2003.Imagine sending your daughter to a city that was just under attack, in a vehicle that was used as a weapon in said attack. Her mother mentions how strict the "new security" is at least once in the movie. Along with this there's a ton of tension and a past between Lady and her mother that cause them to not get along, but I feel that as I watch and read reviews, the looming themes about the September eleventh attacks are widely unnoticed. I myself was unsure why we kept seeing Iraq war news footage until I remembered "oh duh, in this timeline 9/11 happened only 9 months ago" Anyway I guess that's all I wanted to talk about. Pretty decent coming of age story, but of course that's a whole other review in itself.

peteregreen Admittedly watched streamed from Apple TV to an OLED TV in summer evening conditions so not benefiting from a windowless well equipped cinema but the underexposed scenes severely affected the viewing enjoyment of what was otherwise a very good film. I know that OLED has limited brightness but after a futile reaching for the picture settings I began to suspect what I was seeing was actually intentional. I was interested therefore to read the Filmmaker article interview with DP Sam Levy and find some scenes were intentionally underexposed by as much as two and a half stops and read about all the attention to giving the film a certain 2003 look. This is all very well but if you are constantly trying to make out actors in murky scenes and having to rely on speech I think it all looses the plot!

nostalgiakitten I watched Lady Bird on a plane. I was bored out of my mind, excited to see what all the hype was about. I had to turn it off five minutes into the movie. It is every stereotypical coming of age movie. And the main character is just a snobby brat. Not the charming kind of brat, either. It all just seems too overdone. If you'd like to watch the same thing you've seen a million times, go ahead and watch Lady Bird.

SageSledgeRedux "Lady Bird" is perhaps the most thoughtful, honest, funny, and resoundingly accurate depiction of high school life ever put to film. I know this because I am currently living it. Saoirse Ronan has managed to capture in her performance both the intricacies of wanting to think that you know everything, that you're above it all, but also being truly vulnerable, sometimes even scared, and what happens when one side clashes with the other, all with not much more than looks. A triumph of filmmaking.