Movie audiences have recently gotten a number of great coming-of-age stories, and now “Lady Bird” takes a place at the top of that heap, delivering an unfailingly honest, hilarious, and warm-hearted depiction of growing up in California in the early aughts. Making her solo directing debut, actor Greta Gerwig tells the story of Christine McPherson […]
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Film review: “Maggie’s Plan”
The world of academia is given a light skewering in the charming “Maggie’s Plan,” a screwball-ish romantic comedy from writer-director Rebecca Miller (daughter of playwright Arthur Miller). Revolving around a love triangle between self-involved, intellectual Brooklynites, the film calls to mind the works of Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach. Maggie (Greta Gerwig) wants to be […]
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Film Review: “Mistress America”
Fresh off his generational comedy, “While We’re Young,” Noah Baumbach reteams with Greta Gerwig
for “Mistress America.”
