It’s funny, even touching, and altogether credible in the kinetic flow of writer-director Andrea Arnold’s scrappy drama.

With Bird, the English kitchen-sink realist makes a daring move toward the surreal in her first narrative feature in eight ...

“Is it too real for ya?” blares in the background of Andrea Arnold’s latest film, “Bird,” a 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) ...

For Arnold, the process of making a film begins with a single image, a mental picture that she then, over a period of months ...

The main character in Andrea Arnold’s Bird sums up everything this feted British filmmaker knows her way around. She’s a 12-year-old kid called Bailey, pugnaciously played by the newcomer Nykiya Adams ...

Director Andrea Arnold's drama about a young girl and her grifter dad is a typically gritty look at life on the margins — ...

Coming off of her 2021 documentary Cow, about the rhythms and regimens of a dairy cow in Kent, English filmmaker Andrea ...

Good parents are a rarity in Andrea Arnold’s movies ... Her own mother (Jasmine Jobson) lives in another house with Bailey’s three stepsiblings. “Bird,” which Arnold wrote and directed, is really ...

Andrea Arnold, the filmmaker behind ‘Fish Tank’ and ‘American Honey’, has returned with a sensitive, fairytale-like coming-of ...

The girl is Bailey, brightly played by first-time actor Nykiya Adams. The setting is Gravesend, Kent, where she lives in a squat with her magnetic rogue of a father, Bug (Barry Keoghan). Put kindly, ...

Social realism meets a fantastical coming-of-age story in Andrea Arnold 's stunning new movie Bird, one of the best British ...