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By Mark Keizer (225) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Sep 2022

Dunham has taken her oft-articulated concerns about women’s empowerment and self-determination and transported them to 13th-century England…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Sep 2022

In simplistic and self-congratulatory fashion, the film renders its main character as a sort of feminist crusader who undermines the sexist…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Adrian Horton (60) for The Guardian (2,969) on 14 Sep 2022

In Dunham’s hands, the throughline of enduring and discovering one’s worth, however historically imagined, is at once a comfort and a lark…

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By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Sep 2022

A safe film for a rebellious protagonist, even if still maintaining a warm, humanistic quality makes it not a total loss…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Sep 2022

Dunham has made a really attractive and cohesive film, merging her modern, punky sensibilities with the dirt-and-stone drear of the time period…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 13 Sep 2022

Bolstered by a headstrong performance from Ramsey (who is best known as Lyanna Mormont from Game of Thrones), alongside a fantastic supporting…

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By Marya E. Gates (65) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Sep 2022

There is surely an audience for this kind of feel-good quote-un-quote feminism…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2022

Catherine Called Birdy is delightfully witty, irrelevant, and modern-minded while carefully dodging the self-satisfaction and smugness that…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 11 Sep 2022

Catherine Called Birdy is so good, so raucous and wild and wise and witty, that it not only makes me eager to write in alliterative adjectives,…

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By Jourdain Searles (30) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2022

The real star of the show is Dunham, whose sharp dialogue and direction equips every actor with an acidic tongue and knowing gaze…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Sep 2022

The movie wouldn’t have worked half as well had Dunham not discovered Ramsey, a “Game of Thrones” veteran soon to be seen in HBO’s…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 11 Sep 2022

It doesn’t water down her voice…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 11 Sep 2022

Neither a broad farce nor a scathing evisceration of sexism (both then and now), Catherine Called Birdy ends up trapped in a dissatisfying…

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By Dan Callahan (211) for TheWrap (3,203) on 11 Sep 2022

Catherine Called Birdy only shows that dropping Dunham’s sensibility down into the Middle Ages results in a viewpoint that is suffocatingly…

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