Beyond the identity politics and humor, Obvious Child goes the extra mile to represent a seldom voiced, moderate position about a hot button topic.

| Jan 4, 2018

It doesn't overtly try to be anything more than what it is, which makes it that much more cool to watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 2, 2017

Robespierre's direction of the many fine actors she assembled is assured, her sense of pacing nicely loose-limbed.

| Jan 5, 2015

It's bold, but it's not a film that's just trying to be bold; it's just trying to be real -- and it is.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2015

This generous, hilarious character study suggests Jenny Slate has more still to offer.

| Original Score: B | Jan 5, 2015

Slate, who had a brief and unremarkable tenure on Saturday Night Live, proves a winning companion; it's a hang-out movie, and she's fun to hang out with.

| Original Score: B | Jan 5, 2015

Hats off to any film that tries (and succeeds) at presenting challenging, off-putting characters from whose palms I'm reluctantly persuaded to eat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Somehow it all still works. Obvious Child is like one of those kid's paintings where the riot of irreconcilable elements is unified by the charm and madness of a skilled naivety.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Robespierre is at her most assured in her handling of Donna's stand-up act: this is a rare example of a film about a creative type in which the process of transforming life into art is shown plausibly and in some detail.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2014

Despite a few too-cute moments, the movie is both smarter and more sympathetic than that glib shorthand.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 30, 2014

Robespierre's admirably forthright romcom remains good-natured as it flies the flag for a woman's right to choose ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2014

Writer-director Robespierre's low-budget comedy-drama is both caustic and heartfelt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

In Obvious Child, stand-up comedian Jenny Slate plays stand-up comedian Donna Stern, a Brooklyn hipster who puts absolutely no filters between her most intimate, embarrassing thoughts and her shtick on stage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Obvious Child's radicalism lies in its lack of radicalism: there is no grandstanding in the manner of If These Walls Could Talk, no naughty trolling la Sarah Silverman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Just reading about this film will make some people feel sick. I adored it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2014

Robespierre and Slate deserve credit for nudging the abortion narrative away from scaremongering horror, and back towards, if not an entirely happy ending, then at least something a girl might get a joke or two out of.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2014

Actor and stand-up Jenny Slate shines in this romantic comedy which faces up to the realities of abortion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2014

Sharp, funny and feeling, this isn't just Juno-meets-Girls but a smart film that tackles real-life issues with rare frankness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2014

A wonderfully offbeat film about, yes, an abortion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2014

Slate is adept with biting remarks and self-deprecation, and she balances Donna somewhere between flightiness and innocence.

| Original Score: B | Jun 27, 2014