At the end of the book, Birdy is reluctantly set to marry an old rich man she calls "Shaggy Beard," before he dies and she's matched with his son. But in the movie, Birdy's father challenges ...

But for now, I am enough.” It's a tale as old as time. In the first trailer for Lena Dunham’s new movie Catherine Called Birdy, Young Lady Catherine, aka Birdy (Bella Ramsey), is under the ...

A coming-of-age story set in 13th century England shouldn't be so relatable, but Lena Dunham's latest film, "Catherine Called Birdy," works on nearly all fronts. Lady Catherine (Bella Ramsey ...

Birdy is chock full of personality and though ... with the exceptions of Hainsworth — memorable in the mediocre Netflix movie “Metal Lords” — and Sophie Okonedo (“Slow Horses ...

Karen Cushman’s children’s novel “Catherine, Called Birdy” is written in the form of the diary of a 14-year-old girl living in England in 1290. Cushman was most interested in exploring the ...

Credits: Directed by Lena Dunham, starring Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn and Billie Piper. Rating/runtime: PG-13 (for some suggestive material and thematic elements). 108 minutes.

Catherine Called Birdy the movie tells a tighter story than the book’s delightful diary entries tell, and it needed a conclusion with more finality than a journal that simply runs out of pages.

An earlier version of this review incorrectly said that the Newbery Honor-winning novel "Catherine, Called Birdy" won a Newbery Medal. The story has been corrected. In “Catherine Called Birdy ...

Birdy isn't the only character being forced into ... and the stakes have to be high and there's always—when you're doing combat in a movie or a play—there's always a story within, it's not ...

Lena Dunham’s “Catherine Called Birdy” brings vibrancy and color to ... designed her own artwork for the movie that didn’t end up making the cut. An inspiration behind Dunham’s desire ...