Just NO to this kind of thing. Amateurish movies are one thing, but you start putting A-list people in...

| Oct 20, 2020

Landline gets what makes people tick, doesn't shy from reveling in the good, bad and ugly as well as all the gradations hiding in the various grey areas.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2017

"Landline," at times, feels a bit inert, that it's coasting on the novelty of '90s nostalgia without justifying that choice, and allowing those references to stand in for actual propulsive storytelling and jokes.

| Aug 11, 2017

A zippy and friendly episodic comedy and coming-of-age story ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2017

A lovely success.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2017

You can't go wrong with fine actors like Turturro and Edie Falco as the unappreciated mom. But it's Quinn as the feisty kid sister who shines.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2017

Landline is warm and observant, gently funny and moving. And sometimes, as the film argues, cozy and familiar is exactly what you need.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2017

There's seldom a dull moment when this funny and bright woman is onscreen. In a nod to another Nineties memory, there's something about Jenny.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 3, 2017

Landline ultimately succumbs to a trope it eagerly tries to avoid-it ties things up with a bow.

| Aug 2, 2017

Landline is a very funny film about people dealing with very serious situations. Better the Jacobs family than us.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 27, 2017

Like [Obvious Child], this one benefits from Slate's ample charm and comic timing, though they've been funneled into a more conventional coming-of-age story.

| Jul 27, 2017

Slate isn't the star of "Landline," but her daffy, unpredictable presence keeps it fizzing while her co-stars, especially Quinn, deliver brave, nervy performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2017

Slate, a beguiling comic actress with shrewd dramatic instincts, knows how to make even faulty or contrived sequences come off.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2017

"Landline" is a very nice movie about the ways people can be not nice to each other at all, and it never quite overcomes its innate passive aggressiveness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 27, 2017

Witty, warm, and funny, Landline is a charming comedy, edged just a bit by its heartbreaks.

| Jul 27, 2017

The characters and the actors playing them are appealing, and somehow the movie all adds up to a better than break-even proposition.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2017

The actors fling themselves with forced charm into their narrowly defined roles, and Robespierre juggles the story lines with a bland vigor that lacks any observational, analytical, or symbolic dimension.

| Jul 24, 2017

Landline doesn't exploit the retro setting for gimmicky punchlines. Amidst the turmoil of 2017, 1995 feels like a comfortable and quaint world to step back into.

| Jul 24, 2017

I've argued before that Slate should be the queen of modern-day rom-coms, if such a position was open. Add Landline to the evidence pile.

| Jul 21, 2017

A forlornly funny and emotionally bruising dramedy that rarely misses an opportunity to reveal humans as the flawed and occasionally awful beings that they are.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2017