The perturbed spirit of Lady Bird Johnson will rest until somebody ... he wouldn’t take no for an answer,” Caro quotes Barr. Legendary Democratic fixer Tommy “The Cork” Corcoran also ...

But the sense of genuineness and authenticity trumps any lasting feel of glibness, so that the dozens of short scenes gradually accumulate to provide a satisfyingly full sense of Lady Bird’s ...

Next up is Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. (Read our previous entries here.) There’s an appreciable freneticism to Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s wonderful coming-of-age dramedy about a 17-year-old ...

I went to see Greta Gerwig’s movie “Lady Bird” the other day and this is ... cleavage and tight short skirts. The other main characters were men. They were tough. A gun was flashed.

That’s the Joan Didion quote that precedes “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig’s solo writing-directing debut in which she chronicles a year in the life of a 17-year-old high school senior — the ...

That makes it sound as rushed as Snapchat, but, rather, her skill feels gleaned from a particularly sharply written short novel. She just doesn’t waste any time. One boyfriend who Lady Bird ...

Watch a trailer for "Lady Bird," starring Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, and Danielle Macdonald. Photo: A24 Films Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” has so many great zingers that it’s hard to pick a ...

It’s only when we look back that we discover what and who made us. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan)—the titular protagonist of “Lady Bird” (2017), written and directed ...