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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The PlaylistJason BaileyThe PlaylistJason BaileyCatherine Called Birdy is delightfully witty, irrelevant, and modern-minded while carefully dodging the self-satisfaction and smugness that those descriptors can conjure up.
- 91IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandCatherine Called Birdy is so good, so raucous and wild and wise and witty, that it not only makes me eager to write in alliterative adjectives, but to reconsider my views on everything else she’s made in recent years. It’s wonderful.
- 90VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe movie wouldn’t have worked half as well had Dunham not discovered Ramsey, a “Game of Thrones” veteran soon to be seen in HBO’s “The Last of Us.” The young actor has a face one might find in a medieval Madonna portrait and a rowdy contemporary sensibility that makes her instantly relatable.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterJourdain SearlesThe Hollywood ReporterJourdain SearlesThe real star of the show is Dunham, whose sharp dialogue and direction equips every actor with an acidic tongue and knowing gaze.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreNew York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreIt doesn’t water down her voice. Instead, the self-lacerating, self-consumed filmmaker seems liberated by the act of adaptation, as though tempering her distinctive creative impulses gives her rein to make a movie that’s tender and more broadly crowd-pleasing, while still very much her own.
- 75New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiDunham has made a really attractive and cohesive film, merging her modern, punky sensibilities with the dirt-and-stone drear of the time period.
- 60Screen RantMae AbdulbakiScreen RantMae AbdulbakiBolstered by a headstrong performance from Ramsey (who is best known as Lyanna Mormont from Game of Thrones), alongside a fantastic supporting cast, Catherine Called Birdy will be best enjoyed by a younger audience, though it’s still fun enough for viewers of all ages.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonNeither a broad farce nor a scathing evisceration of sexism (both then and now), Catherine Called Birdy ends up trapped in a dissatisfying middle ground between those two extremes, a tonal decision that results in only mild laughs and somewhat engaging characters.
- 50RogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesRogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesThere is surely an audience for this kind of feel-good quote-un-quote feminism. But a book of such richness, with a heroine as complex as Birdy, deserves much more than this genial Renn Faire romp.
- 40TheWrapDan CallahanTheWrapDan CallahanCatherine Called Birdy only shows that dropping Dunham’s sensibility down into the Middle Ages results in a viewpoint that is suffocatingly small and unenlightening.