Barry Keoghan's new movie debuts with 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating
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Barry Keoghan's new movie Bird has debuted with an impressive 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film from American Honey director Andrea Arnold has just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, drawing largely rave reviews from critics.
Bird follows 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who lives in a squat in Kent with her dad Bug (Keoghan) and brother Hunter (Jason Buda). Her father's negligence leads her to seek adventure elsewhere, where she crosses paths with the mysterious Bird (Franz Rogowski).
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Attracting a full score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, critics have praised Bird as "poignant" and "moving", though others have suggested Arnold's movie is "flawed".
Here's what they've been saying:
The Hollywood Reporter
"British auteur Andrea Arnold follows up her last feature, the poignant, non-verbal slice-of-farmyard-life that is the documentary Cow, with a new member of her cinematic menagerie: drama Bird, an uplifting competitor for Cannes’ Palme d’Or."
Screen International
"Bird spreads its wings slowly, but ends up soaring away from its dingy broken-Britain locations in a moving flight of hope and empowerment."
The Times
"Andrea Arnold, the director of Fish Tank, Red Road and American Honey, has taken her biggest swing yet with a movie that is by turns strange, beguiling and deeply moving. It’s bound to upset fans of Arnold’s gritty canon so far because it lives in that tricky place where social and magical realism collide."
Deadline
"Arnold knows just how to get under our skin. If we struggle to settle into all this misery to begin with, by the end we’re as invested as we could be."
The Guardian
"Andrea Arnold’s flawed, garrulous new movie is a chaotic social-realist adventure with big, chancy performances, grimly violent episodes, tragedy butting heads with comedy and physical existence facing off with fantasy and imagination."
IndieWire
"The surreal elements of her latest film don’t click into place as well as they ought to, but she’s trying something different, making Bird an often shimmering, lovely, and emotionally generous entry in a career that’s never faltered."
Bird currently has no release date.
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