NR Daily: Lady Bird: A Needy Teen and Her Exasperating Mom, Both Vindicated

'Do you like me?" a teen girl asks her mother at an especially nervy moment in her chaotic life. "Of course I love you," responds the mom. "But do you like me?" the girl wants to know. It's one of the most beguiling moments in Lady Bird, a serio-comic coming-of-age movie just launched at this year's New York Film Festival. It's one of the funniest, most genuine, and best films of the year, replete with dead-on humor and acutely observed situations. As the mother and daughter, Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan seem certain to draw well-deserved Oscar nominations ...

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