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Babes

2024

Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, Shola Adewusi, Sandra Bernhard ...

Comedy It tells the story of Eden who becomes pregnant from a one-night-stand and leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her.

	Media	Author	Review
		Adrian Horton The Guardian	"'Babes' unabashedly refashions the rom-com to the ebb and flow of best friendship, of growing apart and coming back together in a new phase of life (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"Cowritten by 'Broad City's Ilana Glazer and directed by Pamela Adlon, this proudly vulgar and brutally honest comedy aims to be the 'Bridesmaids' of babymaking"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"This modern-day 'women’s picture' is no weepie, mind you. It’s “Bridesmaids”-level funny at times, though it lacks the sharp psychological insights that made that film a classic."
		Christian Zilko IndieWire	"While 'Babes' begins its approach to domesticity with the same aversion to responsibility that powered 'Broad City,' it ultimately settles on a more mature attitue"
		Jacob Hall SlashFilm	"The film is a crowd-pleaser, and it does deliver big, warm moments for the intended audience of this film: mothers, sisters, and female-identifying BFFs"
		Zachary Barnes The Wall Street Journal	"It is never very affecting or, more lethally, very funny"
		Jessi Cape Austin Chronicle	"We need more raunchy female friendship films like this"
		Ferdosa Abdi Screen Rant	"With 'Babes', the filmmaking team captures an authentic, and often underrepresented, facet of sisterhood and motherhood (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"A movie like this needs believable friend chemistry at its center to work and 'Babes' absolutely has that in Glazer and Buteau"
		Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"Although 'Babes' nails its comedic swings, the film strains to build the narrative tension and stakes needed to land its more serious moments."
		Matthew Creith The Wrap	"[It] may deal with weighted adult issues like motherhood, friendship, connection and the struggles of moving on, but, rest assured, it is a comedic gold mine of delightful punch lines"
		Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"This is a smart and loving movie about female friendship (...) I love how this film is so capacious in its affection for its characters that it does not need to diminish any of them (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times	"Among life's biggest disappointments is a movie you wanted to love and didn't. Alas: That's what happened with 'Babes'"
		Rocco T. Thompson Slant	"By turns tender and raucous, Pamela Adlon’s feature-length directorial debut, 'Babes', spins the uneasy, unwelcome, weirdly cool corporeal realities of pregnancy into heartfelt comic gold (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Stars induce laughter with frank depictions of pregnancy and the challenges of friendship (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Coleman Spilde The Daily Beast	"While 'Babes' doesn’t seek to reinvent the comedy wheel, Glazer once again excavates the bonds between women to find all of those hysterical intricacies that she is so adept at sending up"
		Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times	"Unfiltered and unabashed, 'Babes' gets at the basic truth of motherhood"
		Carla Meyer San Francisco Chronicle	"'Babes' offers keen insights into pregnancy, parenting and longtime friendships, although many get lost in the movie's bodily function-joke jamboree (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Christian Gallichio The Film Stage	"'Babes' is something quite rare these days: both emotionally complex and hysterical"
		B.L. Panther Paste Magazine	"An often hilarious reminder that there are many cycles in life"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"A comedy that is unabashedly outrageous and rambunctiously heartfelt"

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