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We are two blocks from the Austin Convention Center and downtown, less than a mile from Lady Bird Lake and the 10 miles of hike - and - bike trail surrounding it, and in the midst of east Austin with its famed barbecue, taco trucks, and coffee shops.

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What starts as an angst - full cry from Lady Bird to «live through something», escalates to a heated discussion about their family's financial situation, the efforts put into having her in a safe school, her desire to go beyond, and Marion's distrust about her daughter's own abilities.

If there's an upset, it would likely come from Lady Bird's Saoirse Ronan (my preferred choice) or The Shape of Water's Sally Hawkins.

The film is mostly told from Lady Bird's perspective, and like most high school seniors, her attention is all focused on herself and her own troubles.

Much of the comedy flows from Lady Bird's school.

This is to take nothing away from Lady Bird.

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The film's broader shift in perspective is its most impressive, as its sympathies gradually tilt from Lady Bird, a teen desperate to transcend her upbringing, to Marion, a mother who sacrifices her time and her body for her family without reward.

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It's not just the dialogue that feels authentic in Lady Bird — the solo directorial debut from Gerwig, one of the most talented young directors in Hollywood.

Lady Bird also stands out from the crowd because the McPherson family struggles financially.

And Lady Bird is such a compelling journey from start to finish, we're almost too emotionally exhausted to catch this simple truth on the first viewing.

I then had a call from a lovely lady who had recently opened a gift shop on the quay in Exeter and had been told about my birds.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

The owner of the company was part owner of my former sponsor Vital Strength, so while it may seem like I have «jumped ship» with my sponsorship, I have in fact remained loyal to the driving force and innovator from my previous sponsor in teaming up with Red Back and Lady Bird.

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It's centrally located, and is an easy walk from downtown, Lady Bird Lake, and a host of great restaurants.

The best movies of 2017 included, clockwise from top left: «Dunkirk,» «Get Out,» «The Florida Project,» «Lady Bird,» «Okja Movie reviews, news and features from critics and reporters of The New York Times.

It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

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Lady Bird is the name Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) gives herself, as the seventeen - year - old tries to break away from her family and find her own identity.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

The positives: prestige films from Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to The Shape of Water, NEON / 30West's I, Tonya, A24's The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and The Florida Project, Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me By Your Name and others have been performing strongly at the box office.

Sally Hawkins (who shockingly benefited from the one win the National Society didn't give to Lady Bird) and Frances McDormand were in play but no one seemed to be seizing the season like Ronan had.

Saoirse attended a screening of Lady Bird in Dublin a few days ago, and our gallery has been updated with images from the event.

Most of Lady Bird's teen characters are united by these and other populist totems (in one adorable departure from a world of cultural verisimilitude, Sacramento seems to be a haven for Stephen Sondheim nuts), but the film finds them increasingly aware of the highly visible class markers that separate them.

From a fraught relationship with her mom (Metcalf) to a falling out with her best pal (Feldstein) to a very messy romantic life, Lady Bird is as authentic as they come.

In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).

Ronan's Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson is a work - in - progress, but she's also kind of a jerk, and Gerwig never shies away from showing the angstier, angrier side of growing up.

Working from a well - paced screenplay with many digressions but never a wasted moment, Lady Bird is brought to life by a cast that appears fully engaged in every nuance.

A24's Lady Bird, up for five nominations this evening including Best Picture, is at over $ 48.28 M in its 18th weekend of release from a weekend gross of $ 532K in 710 locations.

So far, Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird has been cleaning up on the awards circuit, earning Best Picture from the New York Film Critics Circle and several awards and nominations for stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

Lady Bird Is a Sensational Paean to Teenage Life — David Sims raves about Greta Gerwig's witty and moving new film, which features a wonderful lead performance from Saoirse Ronan.

The fantastical movie is a world apart from «Lady Bird,» Gerwig's first solo directing credit, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a disgruntled Sacramento teen who's eager to escape her drab surroundings in 2002.

Other highlights of the festival include three Philadelphia - shot archival screenings from the late, great Jonathan Demme, including, Beloved, Neil Young Trunk Show, and Philadelphia; WWII drama Darkest Hour; Greta Gerwig's coming - of - ager Lady Bird; the much - talked - about The Florida Project; and Todd Haynes reunion with muse Julianne Moore in Wonderstruck.

Toy Story 2 got 163 in 1999, but Rotten Tomatoes notes that Lady Bird's total will probably just keep going up from here as the movie expands out of limited release — unless it inexplicably starts getting pulled down by contrarian critics who are disappointed in its lack of Hank Hill or Lady Bird Johnson.

«Lady Bird» is a graceful, insightful, smart, hilarious and warm coming - of - age comedic drama that could only come from Greta Gerwig.

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

Q: There are lots of other great characters in the movie, though, from the disappointing guys Lady Bird dates (played by «Call Me by Your Name's» Timothee Chalamet and «Manchester by the Sea's» Lucas Hedges) to her patient dad (Tracy Letts) to a cool school nun (Lois Smith) and more.

Her mother, a nurse, is trying hard to balance the need to be practical about finances — Lady Bird's father is about to lose his job — with the parental instinct to protect her daughter from the most unpleasant realities of life, including her parents» inability to make everything work out.

Matt writes: Kick off 2018 with RogerEbert.com's compilation of interview highlights from 2017, featuring several of this year's awards season frontrunners, including «Darkest Hour» star Gary Oldman and «Lady Bird» writer / director Greta Gerwig.

Lady Bird, Gerwig's directorial debut, has so far scored a perfect 100 from 169 reviews.

With a bold leading turn from Saoirse Ronan, and an internalized masterclass of a performance from the often underappreciated Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird is an honest comment on strained mother - daughter relationships, functioning as a sort - of companion piece to last year's best coming - of - age film, The Edge of Seventeen.

Lady Bird is a joy, from its start... to its finish, when that ever - so - slightly older young woman takes a breath and looks out — hopefully, nervously, excitedly — into a limitless future.

This image released by A24 Films shows Saoirse Ronan, left, and Laurie Metcalf in a scene from «Lady Bird.»