Bird frequently feels as if we’re in an extended vignette where we’re tagging along for a ride with no beginning, middle or end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2025

Despite the difficult and weighty subjects here, like underage and neglectful parenting, the film's social realism finds way of escape in an irrepressible sense of fun and an immersive, uplifting natural world

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2025

This film is an interesting shift for the director in that it adds magical realism to the social realism that underpins previous works such as Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016).

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 21, 2025

It's a swirling film, full of joy and grinding poverty, despair and the beauty of nature pushing through ruins

| Feb 21, 2025

The film builds to a daring final reel that has been deftly built to with impressive subtlety. In lesser hands, the gift the film bestows on viewers wouldn’t have worked so beautifully.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2025

Bird almost exists in a voyeuristic plane, but its sense of magic fidelity allows it to exist in a certain escapism.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2025

It meanders at times, but it soars too, lifted high on a belief love and family really do matter, no matter how scrappy and unconventional a form they may take.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2025

The film’s diligent pacing, electrifying British post-punk soundtrack, and dynamic camera work amplify the protagonist’s sense of anxiety and disorientation, making Bird a visceral, radiant, and highly rewarding experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2025

Arnold uses magical realism recalling the Canadian series Trickster to inject hope into a gritty lower-class British world where misery is more often the rule.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 16, 2025

Bird becomes a catalyst for maturity. A prism with which to look back at moments she once saw colored as tragic disappointment that now seem like examples of optimism for the future.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 10, 2025

…By assembling a wild cast, [Andrea] Arnold manages…to realize the deeply humanistic desire to belong to a world, one that we also feel as our own. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2025

Exceptionally deft control of mood and the erratic psychology of one of God's most unpredictable creatures, a twelve-year-old girl.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 29, 2024

[Andrea Arnold] leavens the struggles of twelve-year-old Bailey with a welcome infusion of fanciful, magical realism in the figure of title character Bird.

| Dec 24, 2024

Even if Arnold’s new approach doesn’t always come together, it gives Bird an exciting edge. It feels like we’re watching something unexpected and unique.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2024

The film is meant to be a poetic, socially aware, magical realism look at teen angst and imagination. More often than not, though, it breeds bewilderment.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 19, 2024

A children’s fable comes to life, Bird documents the adultification of young women tasked with keeping a broken world and broken family together in hopes of a future.

| Dec 16, 2024

All in all, despite its arrhythmia in creating a hooligan magical realism, the best thing about Bird is that, at no time, it is what you expect. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2024

A wonder of a film.

| Dec 5, 2024

What struck me more was the film’s interpretation of Bailey’s coming of age not as something to be mourned or that comes on too soon. Instead, it’s an activation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2024

Magnetic, emotional. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2024