Elizabeth Banks plays a radicalised housewife in need of a life-saving termination in this well-intentioned and timely drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Nagy’s Call Jane had the potential to dive into the topic of women’s reproductive rights, but it doesn’t lean towards being revolutionary.

| Sep 8, 2023

Call Jane is a story about abortion, but more than that, it’s a story about community and connection — and what we can achieve when we don’t act alone.

| Aug 10, 2023

Based on real events, the movie goes from the particular to the collective, from the kitchens to the streets, with steadiness and conviction, delicately and sensitively. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2023

... Although it recreates a very complex and terrible episode in a somewhat idealized and simplistic way, Call Jane conveys an exciting sorority in which women of all stripes, including a nun, risked their lives to help others. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 4, 2023

Effective, solid look at a retrograde past that is a throwback in the present. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2023

Call Jane is a good looking and superbly acted movie that whilst occasionally feeling a little passive, does it's best to provide intriguing and empowering discourse about the lack of abortion health care in 1960's America.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2023

It’s funnier and lighter on its feet than you might expect, the script isn’t lacking wit, and it’s well-cast, with Banks turning in a delicate, fine-tuned comedio-dramatic performance...

| Mar 27, 2023

Call Jane is an upbeat crowd-pleaser that handles the fraught issue of abortion with a light touch without ever making light of it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2023

As an accessible film with a solid lead performance, Call Jane is an important addition to the Janes’ story.

| Jan 19, 2023

Some of the comedic moments in Call Jane are awkwardly placed, and a few of the characters become dangerously close to being parodies. However, the movie is intriguing overall in portraying a pre-Roe v. Wade female perspective of abortion in the U.S.

| Jan 5, 2023

If Call Jane’s narrative is largely paint-by-numbers, its closing scene eschews narrative conventions. We are left with names, circumstances, the then-as-now cries for help, and the knowledge that there is so much more still to burn.

| Dec 17, 2022

El enfoque de la película se siente lavado. Se basa en una visión romántica del empoderamiento femenino mientras seguimos a una mujer blanca, de privilegio, que experimentó una instancia de opresión.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 15, 2022

While Call Jane is what I referred to earlier as an abortion drama, the abortions are one of the film’s least dramatic elements — which makes a fairly dramatic statement in itself. Of course, right now, any abortion drama feels appallingly timely

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2022

Banks’ committed performance and the timely subject matter are what keep Nagy’s film truly afloat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2022

Initially, the film’s heavy air of humor seems flippant, until you realize it’s an essential element in making such a controversial topic so imminently watchable.

| Original Score: B | Nov 15, 2022

This is a film that people need to see now. Its importance is growing by the day. Should serve as a rallying cry for women and people who support the idea of them having control over their own bodies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 13, 2022

On its own, admittedly limited terms, “Call Jane” fills its goal of celebrating the work of a group of women committed to fighting for a right denied them in the sixties—and would undoubtedly feel they must now fight for again.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 8, 2022

There are many pleasures to be had from the period look of the film which is enhanced by a neatly chosen soundtrack. It’s possible to watch Call Jane just for entertainment and not be too disturbed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2022

[An] entertaining, if not exactly heavyweight, movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2022