One year ago, there was “The Edge of Seventeen.” Written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, the feature sliced through the claptrap that normally fattens teen cinema to deliver a bruising but honest take on the trials of adolescence, crafted with care and emotional precision. Now there’s “Lady Bird,” and even more effective take on the teenage experience from a female point of view, with writer/director Greta Gerwig absolutely nailing the crushing, combative details of growing up, stripping away most of the requisite profundity to hammer an in-the-moment feel that’s positively miraculous. It’s a phenomenal film, finding Gerwig’s attention to the nuances of young love and life authentic and often hilarious, refreshingly content to simply understand the needs of the juvenile heart, never slipping into manipulation or artificiality.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com