Whitney Cummings’s film never seems quite sure whether it wants to probe the depths of its title subject or just make us laugh.
A uniquely American comedy, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is testy, humane, and firmly rooted in its time and place.
The film’s expected rehash of recent pop-culture totems is accompanied by a novel attention to millennial-centric debates about entitlement and identity politics.
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