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Obvious Child
2014
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Positive Reviews
40
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.8
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4.5
Theres nothing pixie like, or dream girl ish about Obvious Childs lead Donna (Saturday Night Live and Parks & Recreations Jenny Slate), shes more rauc ..
Den Of Geek
3.8
By placing the abortion in the context of a much broader series of events, Robespierre normalizes it.
Indie Wire
4.5
The beauty of Obvious Child is that theres nothing obvious about it.
Vulture
4.5
And the knowing evoking of clichd rom com story beats doesnt always lead to superior versions of stereotypical scenes.)
Paste Magazine
3.8
Its a comedy with abortion at its center that doesnt fall into about a dozen traps that might have swallowed it up.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.8
Looking at your PHONE while youre dumping me Obvious Child is a quirky, funny and quite gutsy comedy that goes there in the vernacular of five minutes ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.0
In Obvious Child, stand up comedian Jenny Slate plays stand up comedian Donna Stern, a Brooklyn hipster who puts absolutely no filters between her mos ..
The Times
3.0
Obvious Child has an earnest indie movie sweetness thats oddly winning, despite its unromantic crust of cheerful profanity.
News Review
4.0
How wonderful that a film that is so unapologetically frank should simultaneously feel so warm and delightful.
Radio Times
4.5
The only agenda that Obvious Child has is to be true and funny, and it succeeds impressively at both.
The Wrap
3.1
Virtue and vulgarity fight to a draw via a film that should put the vivacious Jenny Slate and director Gillian Robespierre on everyones indie radar.
News Day
4.5
Gillian Robespierres debut feature is a provocative, amusing comedy provided you cotton to the main character.
Film Journal International ..
4.5
But shes a veritable dark star of crazy sexy screen energy as foulmouthed, acerbic and frequently intoxicated comic Donna Stern, a character pretty cl ..
Salon
1.5
At just under an hour and half, this is one of the few movies Ive seen in the past year that seems distinctly too shortan assessment thats only in par ..
Slate
1.5
Also, hes got a new girlfriend, whose texts he cant help checking.
Time
4.4
Moment to moment, you believe whats happening in Robespierres film, which is funny and rueful in roughly equal measure without being despairing in the ..
Chicago Tribune
4.5
Obvious Child is a small scale but winning comedy from writer director Gillian Robespierre and leading lady Jenny Slate.
Blogs Indie Wire
3.2
Obvious Child is well made and wickedly bold, but I still found myself wishing for a little more subtle maturity on the part of its characters and cre ..
Blogs Indie Wire
4.0
However, theres no denying that this is a delightfully candid exploration of reproductive rights and gender inequality.
Cine Vue
3.5
The movie stumbles when Robespierre falls into the cuteness trap of romantic comedy construction.
Tamp A Bay
3.8
Sorry, partisans, but theres nothing obvious about Obvious Child.
Stl Today
4.4
What I like about Obvious Child is that it doesnt flinch it doesnt run away from the subject of abortion like most movies (and some movie reviews) do.
Ar Kansas Online
3.1
It is unlikely to change any hearts or minds in our perpetually and permanently polarized times, but the film has the courage of its convictions, whic ..
Js Online
4.0
Either the perfect vehicle for Jenny Slate, or evidence that Jenny Slate can turn anything into a profound, hilarious performance. Im willing to belie ..
Crave Online
3.0
A small, offbeat dramatic comedy that deftly and humorously explores touchy territory.
No La
3.5
But Hollywood doesnt seem entirely sure how to combine the traditional wish fulfillment aspects of the rom with a franker, less genteel kind of com.
Seven Day Svt
3.8
It doesnt overtly try to be anything more than what it is, which makes it that much more cool to watch.
Reel Talk Online
3.5
Its like watching someone waterboard themselves with litre after litre of low self esteem.
O Canada
3.8
Robespierre isnt a revolutionary director, but shes willing to try anything.
Oc Register
4.5
What makes this film so unusual and, presumably, controversial is that she doesnt really debate her decision at all.
Lagniappe Mobile
3.8
A foul mouthed comedy with an immature heroine has treated a thorny issue with remarkable candor.
Dallas News
1.5
But thats not exactly true: Obvious Child is not About Abortion, in the afterschool special, other movies I shall not name way.
Eugene Weekly
4.0
The humor is balanced with small dramatic beats that lend authentic emotion to the proceedings.
World Film About
4.5
Another unique pleasure of Obvious Childs: the star making of Jenny Slate.
Quick Flix
4.5
Where Obvious Child succeeds is in letting women be funny, not in the faux humor of humiliation that too many comedic actresses in movies are subjecte ..
Bitch Flicks
4.2
But despite a few too cute moments (and many fantastically graphic vagina jokes), the movie is both smarter and more sympathetic than that glib shorth ..
Insidemovies Ew
4.5
It isnt just used as an opportunity for Slate to bounce funny lines off of a famous comedian.
Times Of Israel
3.0
Robespierre and Slate deserve credit for nudging the abortion narrative away from scaremongering horror, and back towards, if not an entirely happy en ..
The Guardian
4.0
Obvious Child takes the same shape as its elfin lead actress; its just a slip of a thing, and it slips easily into different guises, from coarsely fun ..
Ausin Chronicle
4.5
Beautifully redresses how the realities of womens lives are too often ignored on film... and does so with startling raw power and humor.
FlickFilosopher
4.5
Raunchy humor laced with gradually revealed vulnerability makes for a winning combination in Obvious Child, a wildly funny and appealing female centri ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Its both funny and serious without trying too hard to be either, and by trying above all to be honest.
The New York Times
2.5
The about face they try to pull in the last ten minutes of the movie just doesnt cut it.
Comingsoon
3.8
Whats amazing about Obvious Child is theres never a question about Donna choice.
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