Sentences with phrase «than lady bird»

No thread runs harder through the film than Lady Bird's contentious relationship with her mother Marion.

Christine's best friend at school is Julie (Beanie Feldstein), who's a whiz at maths and turns out to be a better actor than Lady Bird when they both sign up for the school drama club.

Metcalf, who has given many subtle, memorable performances, is a stand - out marvel, inhabiting the role of a mother who is more loving and supportive than Lady Bird can see, with a seemingly endless reservoir of strength and perseverance.

Foroughi devotes her debut feature to a high - school girl whose charismatic stubbornness has more dangerous, erratic edges than Lady Bird's.

The coming - of - age comedy, out next year, chronicles a year in the life of Christine (Saoirse Ronan), an angsty teen who refuses to be known by anything other than Lady Bird.

Look no further than Lady Bird's own Pepto pink prom dress for the most obvious parallel, but the similarities go far beyond shared sartorial choices.

Not exact matches

This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.

A sweet, deeply personal portrayal of female adolescence that's more attuned to the bonds between best girlfriends than casual flings with boys, writer - director Greta Gerwig's beautiful Lady Bird flutters with the attractively loose rhythms of youth.

It's a formidable Best Picture contender with a strong shot at nominations across - the - board with Kristin Scott Thomas more of a threat than people think for a Supporting Actress nomination (despite a now more robust competition than evident before Lady Bird and I Tonya crushed ideas about that particular race).

I'm a major fan of every winner in the four acting categories, yet I'm haunted by the fact that Allison Janney, brilliant as she was as Tonya Harding's seething narcissist of a stage mom, had a role that was so much showier than Laurie Metcalf's in «Lady Bird,» and that the showiness is what put her over.

I'm simply pointing out that in a year that's supposed to be about defining new ways of seeing, «Get Out,» «Lady Bird,» and «Call Me by Your Name» were all — to me — vastly superior movies than «The Shape of Water.»

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

It's no wonder her debut as a feature film writer and director would be met with a certain level of expectation, but what she delivers with Lady Bird is something even more magical and grander than could have ever be expected.

Whether it's the economic unease rumbling underneath «The Florida Project,» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «Lady Bird,» the political skulduggery of «The Post» or the racial tensions of «Get Out» and «Wind River,» Hollywood did have a little more on its mind than sequels and superheroes.

Plunging through her final year of high school, the self - named Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) seems mostly intent on defying expectations rather than pursuing a future career.

I grew up reading her syndicated column * sniffle * This link is a remembrance of her by Denis Ferrara who was a very close friend and collaborator on her column Esquire the ten best comedies of the year including Ingrid Goes West, Thor Ragnarok, Girls Trip, and Lady Bird Independent Firing Kevin Spacey from House of Cards might be more difficult than Netflix thought, legally speaking Awards Daily the case for Michelle Pfeiffer.

Joining the ranks of The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Edge of Seventeen as a refreshing woman - centered coming - of - age film (and offering more depth than either), Lady Bird captures a recent era with precision and a hint of nostalgia that's not distracting: Clunky flip phones and «Cry Me a River» blend right in.

To be clear, the new record doesn't mean that Lady Bird got better reviews than Toy Story 2, necessary — just that it got more reviews, and all of those reviews were on the positive side.

Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) reaches senior year in Catholic high school caring more about being the «Lady Bird» she now wants to be than pleasing any Prince Charming or her mother.

By the end of the movie, Lady Bird and Marion know each other more deeply than before, taking their first steps into an adult relationship.

Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig's movie has now made more money than any film from A24.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri — 5 years, 23 before that (no Director nom)-- Argo The Shape of Water — 22 years (no SAG Cast nom)-- Braveheart Phantom Thread — 32 years (no major guild win)-- Out of Africa Lady Bird — 37 years (no below - the - line nominations)-- Ordinary People Call Me By Your Name — 84 years (fewer than five nominations)-- Cavalcade Get Out — 84 years (fewer than five nominations)-- Cavalcade Darkest Hour — 85 years (no directing or writing nominations)-- Grand Hotel Dunkirk — 85 years (no acting or writing nominations)-- Grand Hotel The Post — 85 years (no directing or writing nominations)-- Grand Hotel

Lady Bird's daily life is filled with constant reminders that her classmates are, mostly, more affluent than she is.

Lady Bird winning is to me no better or worse than Argo winning.

Neon / 30West's I, Tonya is now over $ 22.6 M, while The Shape of Water is in the top 10, grossing $ 4.3 M. Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is in more than seventeen hundred locations, taking in three million and Lady Bird played eleven hundred theaters, grossing more than $ 1.35 M.

It is so simple, but yet it feels that every little thing Lady Bird goes through seems more monumental than the event preceding it.

No family feud was more memorable, or more memorably resolved, than the mother - daughter battle in writer - director Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, likely to earn Oscar nods for Gerwig and stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, from A24, is in more than 1,100 theaters in week 14.

This is a common trait with Lady Bird, where the shots compliment the dialogue into making it more than just a scene between two characters.

Look no further than this year's nominations list, which includes some of the year's most beloved indie breakouts, including Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird,» Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me by Your Name,» Kogonada's «Columbus,» and Sean Baker's «The Florida Project.»

Lady Bird, as it happens, was one of the two films to win multiple awards from NYFCC; The Florida Project was the other, and as far as I'm concerned there are no two films more deserving of multiple awards than those.

Marion, exercising an evolutionary maternal reflex, repeatedly criticizes her daughter about everything from her academic talents — or lack thereof — to her indulgent use of not one, but two bath towels, an insignificant act that receives a much more vociferous reaction than, say, when Lady Bird hints that she is considering having sex for the first time.

Greta Gerwig is also nominated for Lady Bird, a story of a teenage girl who wants nothing more than to get as far away as possible from her hometown.

There's no better example of that than their quiet confrontation in a dressing room near the end of the film, as Lady Bird tries to pick a prom dress.

Hence the name Lady Bird, an escape, identity alter - ego, an artistic persona — someone else entirely than Christine, a name her mother gave her.

Lady Bird: Yes, it's a genuinely funny coming - of - age story, with Saoirse Ronan killing it as a precocious high - school senior convinced she's better than her home town of Sacramento.

Every time I saw a woman opine that Lady Bird was the future of film, an unprecedented and astonishing event, I wished we were somewhere other than on Twitter, where everything sounds like shouting.

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

Lady Bird definitely seems to have more going for it than going against in terms of winning something at the Oscars, whether it's screenplay or picture or actress or the whole thing.

Her situation seems more urgent than those in «Tonya» and «Lady,» partially because she is poorer but also because her story is present - day, compared with the 2002 - set «Bird» and mostly»90s «Tonya.»

It's arguably a better fit in that vein than some of the other female - focused contenders; Lady Bird certainly has its own momentum now, and it's entirely possible Natalie Portman will have successfully shamed the Academy (and possibly the DGA) into giving Greta Gerwig a nomination for Best Director, but that film doesn't play the abuse card the way Three Billboards does.

Leaving her lifelong best friend Julie (Beanie Feldstein, Jonah Hill's real life sister) in the dust, Lady Bird finagles her way into Jenna's (Odeya Rush) inner circle of rich kids, including the cooler - than - cool Kyle (Timothee Chalamet, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME).

Though Ronan's Lady Bird has been a more overall awards - season favorite, it has just one more Globe nomination than I, Tonya, suggested a parity of affection among Globes voters.

In Lady Bird, characters do indeed come and go, including two boyfriends — played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts).

In one of the most potent scenes, Lady Bird demands her mother write on paper just how much dollars she cost, dreaming aloud that one day she'll make more than what she costs.

One of the lovely things about all these minor characters with their rich, complex stories is that they allow us to watch Lady Bird's world while understanding it better than she does in the moment.

But it's also far easier to envision something like Get Out or Lady Bird, both critically acclaimed box office hits, having the sort of broad popularity with these younger voters than it would be with the older voters, who tend toward more artistically conservative ideas of what an Oscar - worthy movie is.

MONDELLO: Lady Bird dreams big, bigger than her family can afford, bigger than her mother will sit still for on a college campus road trip that starts the film.

However, other than these few screenplay picks, there were a lot of great choices to be found, including Laurie Metcalf continuing to dominate Best Supporting Actress for her great performance in «Lady Bird» and Margot Robbie scoring a couple of wins for «I, Tonya.»

Here, Lady Bird realizes that her friend's pain is more significant than hers and requires real compassion, which Danny gratefully accepts as he collapses into her arms.