This whistle-stop tour of the eponymous teenager's final year at high school is delightful, charming, funny and engagingly honest. Taking the form of a series of rapid-fire vignettes, this is a real triumph for writer-director Greta Gerwig as the remarkable cast land the fully-formed and expertly played characters scene after scene with enjoyably effective precision, notably Soairse Ronan's most enjoyable performance so far and the excellent Laurie Metcalf delivering an extraordinary character study as the damaged but loving mother. Its ordinariness is its strength, as the simplest of moments can take great importance in the life of a teenager, but this film is so well-observed and wrangles powerful themes into a hugely enjoyable whole.
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