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Bird
Directed by
Andrea Arnold
R
2024
1h 59m
Drama
7.0
86%
76%
7.2
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Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
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Cast of Bird
Nykiya Adams
Bailey
Franz Rogowski
Bird
Barry Keoghan
Bug
Jason Buda
Hunter
Jasmine Jobson
Peyton
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Kayleigh
James Nelson-Joyce
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Jason Williamson
Fred
Rhys Yates
Beck
Joanne Matthews
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Calum Speed
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Sarah Beth Harber
Dionne's Mum
Kirsty J. Curtis
Moon's Mum
Carlos O'Connell
Andrea Arnold
Director / Screenplay / Producer
Jessamine Burgum
Executive Producer
Michael D'Alto
Executive Producer
Tessa Ross
Producer
Claude Amadeo
Executive Producer
Randal Sandler
Executive Producer
Bird Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
What struck me more was the film's interpretation of Bailey's coming of age not as something to be mourned or that comes on too soon. Instead, it's an activation.
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
I think the leap of faith doesn't entirely work but I kind of went with it, not least because it felt like a positive move.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
In this ecstatic coming-of-age drama set among the squatting classes in Northern Kent, England, Newcomer Nykiya Adams, in a refreshingly natural performance that carries the movie, plays Bailey.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"Bird" at least maintains a heartbeat of ache and affection for youth in all its rudeness, revealing a filmmaker who isn't afraid of losing her claws if she traffics in the thing with feathers.
Washington Post
Ty Burr
There are pieces of a great movie here, but they never quite come together in a way that allows a gifted filmmaker to take flight.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
There's value to holding onto that child's-eye view, and Bird, more than anything, is an ode to that fact.
AV Club
Natalia Keogan
While Bird still employs an interest in socially vulnerable characters, its viewpoint feels less rooted in authentic struggle than in sensationalistic strife.
Wall Street Journal
Zachary Barnes
Though the more fantastic symbolic concepts of "Bird" don't take flight as they're meant to, the film's human portraits give it vibrancy.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
"Bird" would make a pretty good stage musical - not just because people always seem to be singing, but because it's achingly, heartbreakingly sincere, and for a character living in chaos, that sincerity can feel like magic.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Bird may be the most divisive movie of Andrea Arnold's career, and we're including the gloriously feral 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. But like everything else she's done to date, it's also rewarding in unexpected ways.
Chicago Reader
Kylie Bolter
Writer-director Andrea Arnold establishes a rich world of complicated characters and beautiful, poetic moments.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Instead of being "too real for ya," "Bird," with its in-your-face poverty and narrative extremes, never feels particularly real at all.
The Film Maven
Kristen Lopez
Arnold's script is fresh and light while never forsaking on the heavy themes she's come to be identified with. It's a magical, hopeful experience.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
Last-minute flourishes save the audience from what could have been 1h 59m of constant hardship and struggle. In the end, the film takes flight.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
Bird is Andrea Arnold's most ambitious work. It also might be her truest masterpiece.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Arnold's filmmaking is typically robust, buoyed by another great soundtrack, of course, but the real gem here is another riveting performance from Rogowski.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
Barry Keoghan is arguably the most electric actor working today, and he absolutely ignites "Bird."
Entertainment Weekly
Maureen Lee Lenker
There are glimmers of potential in Bird. But it never fully manages to take flight, leaving its provocative conclusion more jarring and confusing than revelatory.
The New Yorker
Justin Chang
The story may lose you -- as it lost me -- with a magical-realist turn that magnifies, rather than minimizes, the tortured-animal symbolism that has often dogged Arnold's work.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
The film is Arnold trying to have the integrity of her severity and eat it too. "Bird" is a feel-bad movie that turns into a feel-good movie. What it never feels like is a totally authentic movie.
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