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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  Lena Dunham kinda freaked it on this one, huh.

  and Bella Ramsey is so dang good. would be really cool if she starred in a mega-budget HBO adaptation of my favorite video games.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 2

  lady birdy

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  Review by Jackson McHenry ★★★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  There should be more movies where Andrew Scott and Billie Piper are married.

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  Review by sakshi ★★★ 2

  andrew scott they can NEVER make me hate you!!!

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  Review by Jay ★★★ 4

  a period drama

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  Review by Ali ★★★½ 2

  you either die a hero or live long enough to hear yourself say something stupid as shit like “damm Lena Dunham kinda went off on this one”

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  Review by Vonny Simarmata ★★★ 1

  girl, i get it...... joe alwyn with long hair really does hit different

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  Review by phoebe 💫 ★★★★ 2

  my villain origin story is this and enola holmes coming out when I'm old (21) and not 14. back in MY day (2015), the only movies that were targeted towards 14-year-old girls were about fighting to the death. how I wish I had something like catherine called birdy, which is about being funny and exploring your own womanhood, and has such a wonderfully nuanced depiction of family and faith, and made me cry. it also bears some striking resemblances to HBO's house of the dragon (uncle crushes, girls not wanting to get married to the suitors their father has picked out for them, the main heroine's best friend is named alice and briefly ruins their friendship by entering into a romantic relationship with a close family member of the heroine). idk, loved. I hope the 14-year-old girls of today cherish this.

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  Review by Emily St. James ★★★★ 2

  Five things:

  1. If I say nice things about Lena Dunham, a crack opens in the earth and releases the hundreds of AV Club commenters we keep imprisoned there, but this movie is utterly lovely. It’s easy to forget how intuitive and emotionally dialed in Dunham is as a director because of her whole deal, but I am glad taking her out of her usual milieu is reminding people how good she can be.

  2. Bella Ramsey somehow handles the moment when the film abruptly adapts the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women.

  3. Despite offering a happy ending of sorts, I like that this movie doesn’t end unrealistically. Catherine’s prospects remain much the same, and even she realizes it.…

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  Review by GoosetheFlerken ★★★★

  This would've changed my life in middle school

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  Review by Cate ★★★★ 5

  Listen to me. Look at me, look at me. All that I am is us. All that could be, you already are. You're so strong. You're so wise. You're so powerful. You're so grumpy in the mornings. You're so... you're so close to god without even having to utter his name. I want to make you laugh and make you safe. I'm not gonna live in a world where our children's children don't get to make you laugh when they tumble in the grass in front of us when we're old.

  Lena Dunham got this one so right – loved the tone, the entire cast (but Ramsey, Piper, Scott, and Okonedo the most), the Honey to the Bee monk hunk montage, the happy doom of the ending.

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  Review by BK ★★★★½ 1

  Lena’s casket can go thru NYC pride imo