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Lady Bird

★★★★☆  film

Lady Bird

A girl and her mother adore each other desperately and cannot stop wounding one another, an internecine tenderness set to the particular ache of leaving your hometown. Gerwig understands that attention is a form of love, even when it arrives dressed as criticism.

what it left me with

Your mother was doing her utmost with a nervous system you inherited from her. Telephone her; the eye-roll will keep.

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