Movies that make you laugh and cry

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)

The other award season dramedy of 2017, Lady Bird is such a bittersweet precious pearl because of Greta Gerwig’s unique and wonderful point of view as she tells what’s essentially her life story as a teenage girl growing up in Sacramento, California, while avoiding all the self-obsessed pitfalls of autobiographical scriptwriting. Long story short: this is not a film about her, but about us.