Following up their daring and all-around extraordinary romantic comedy “Obvious Child,” writer-director Gillian Robespierre and actor Jenny Slate reteam for the authentic, heartfelt, and often very funny “Landline,” a melancholy comedy about a Manhattan family in crisis. Dana (Slate) is experiencing some insecurity in her relationship with her sweet, but not very exciting fiancรฉ, Ben […]
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“Obvious Child”
Since its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, “Obvious Child” has consistently been referred to as “the abortion romantic-comedy,” a reductive — if still fairly accurate — description of the film, which manages to tackle a hot-button issue with wit and honesty, while operating within the confines of a crowd-pleasing (and filthy) […]
