AUSTIN, Texas — There is no question about the aesthetic beauty of Lady Bird Lake, as seen on thousands of pictures of Austin’s dynamic skyline. Some have called it the city’s “front door ...

In the opening scene of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”) delivers the knock-out line: “I wish I could live through something.” It’s a sidebar to start an argument, an offhand ...