Review of Lady Bird (2017) by Jhep — 11 Dec 2017
NO SCRIPT just an accumulation of coy “moments” that go nowhere and leave both viewer and film-maker high-and-dry…...Far too much cutesy sweetness that overstays its welcome !!......I could not BELIEVE how long this film went on !!!……and the shrill and repetitive mother-daughter confrontations became a kind of unrelenting psychodrama and an ordeal to sit though…….
My hunch is that many critics like this movie because (given our embattled world these days) they hunger for lightweight reassuring fluff and - poor schmucks- could not see that this is “faux” lightweight reassuring fluff ! Even Laurie Metcalf’s potentially very interesting performance as Lady Bird’s mother gets wasted and has nowhere to go given the triteness of the story that she is given to work with.
This review of Lady Bird (2017) was written by Jhep on 11 Dec 2017.
Lady Bird has generally received very positive reviews.
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