mulaney’s review published on Letterboxd:
my mom is always mad. it doesn't matter if i get home late, she'd be mad at me anyway.
lately, my mom and i have been fighting over everything, it doesn't matter how small or unimportant the issue is, we just can't seem to agree. it's exhausting. it seems like i can't do anything right, and if i do, there is always something else that i did wrong. lately every time i open my mouth i end up regretting it, so i try and limit my words, and she gets upset that i don't tell her things. i still want to be good and i want to make her proud, but as i'm getting older i'm realizing that we are just very different people. i'm sure she wishes that i would just see the world the way she does. i'm sure she would like me more if i was more like her. but i know she does love me. i'm really lucky. we just have lousy ways of showing our love and i don't know what i can do to fix that. i hope one day she'll watch this with me and we can talk about it. i don't know. i'm just grateful for greta and her gift to all of us by sharing stories like this. people are complicating, relationships are complicating, life is hard. but i love lady bird and her mom and julie and this story. i love it.