Lena Dunham’s adaptation of Karen Cushman’s Catherine Called Birdy changes the book for the better. Much like Shadow and Bone and A Series of Unfortunate Events, the changes in the movie, led by Bella Ramsey and Andrew Scott, are for the better. In theaters Sept. 23, and on Amazon Prime Video Oct. 7.
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Passion projects can go all sorts of wrong ways, but Lena Dunham has made something of a triumph in “ Catherine Called Birdy ,” a medieval coming-of-age story that’s part “Bridget Jones’s Diary," part Mel Brooks and all joy.