I’ve gone back and forth deliberating over whether I think this should have been a short or feature. It dragged on at times and very little happened. But even during the quiet moments, Martha’s life was happening. 
She experienced the silence of a room without a child. The empty looks at a doctor as he asks if you’d like to donate your child’s body for science. 
She experienced the states and smiles of children that were not hers and the…

There's never a bad time to watch Lady Bird.

Not sure how many viewings I'm at but I know it's a lot. I love movies about places. Love stories to cities and small towns, ones where half of the film consists of landscapes. These kinds of movies are almost like a sub-genre of Romance, the characters or the writer or director falling in or out of love with a location. Think Columbus, Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Florida…