Lady Bird (2017)

Most people think so. 78% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 96%.

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college. Wikipedia ↗

Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy-drama written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut. Saoirse Ronan stars as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, a spirited, opinionated high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002 who insists on being called by her self-given name and yearns to escape her hometown for an East Coast college. The film follows Lady Bird's senior year — her strained relationship with her loving but critical mother Marion played by Laurie Metcalf, her experiments with different social groups, her first relationships, and her application to colleges her family can't afford.

Greta Gerwig drew heavily from her own Sacramento upbringing to create one of the most authentic and affectionate portraits of American adolescence in recent cinema. Saoirse Ronan's performance captured the contradictions of being seventeen — simultaneously desperate for independence and terrified of leaving home, cruel to the people who love you most, and achingly sincere in your beliefs even when wrong. Laurie Metcalf's Marion was the film's most complex creation — a woman whose love for her daughter manifests as criticism, whose exhaustion and anxiety make her harsh, and whose final, wordless response to Lady Bird's departure was devastating.

Lady Bird earned $79 million worldwide on a $10 million budget, received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, and briefly held the record for the highest Rotten Tomatoes score ever for a wide-release film.