Drama

Bird

2024
★ 7 / 10
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...
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Reviews
★★★★★
Is it a bird? Yes. Well that's that joke knackered then. Andrea Arnold turns her directorial hand back to fiction filmmaking for the first time since 2016's excellent American Honey. Bird follows Bailey (Nykiya Adams), a 12 year old girl growing up in a de...
★★★★★
On one hand here is the honest depiction, decrepit council estates somewhere in Kent, with spray-painted walls housing broken homes, drugs, teenage pregnancy. We're meant to see a ghetto of always precariously perched lives teetering on the edge, and yet someh...
★★★★★
I had the opportunity to screen Bird at Newfest this past Wednesday at the SVA Theater, and it left an indelible mark on me-an experience that makes it easy to see why Andrea Arnold remains one of our most distinctive and fearless filmmakers. Arnold, whose wor...
★★★★★
There are two lovely performances to enjoy in this story of the twelve year old "Bailey" (Nykiya Adams). She lives in a squat with her dad "Bug" (Barry Keoghan), brother "Hunter" (Jason Buda) and her soon-to-be stepmum "Kayleigh" (Frankie Box). It's that impen...
★★★★★
I'm from North Kent and I have thought about whether that biased my review. But ultimately I think because I have first hand knowledge of all the locations and indeed the type of people shown I can confidently say this is one of the most believable portrayals...
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