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Releasing on May 17, 2024
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 1 h 49 m
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 1 h 49 m
Summary After becoming pregnant from a one-night stand, Eden (Ilana Glazer) leans on her married best friend and mother of two, Dawn (Michelle Buteau), to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Directed By: Pamela Adlon
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 1 h 49 m
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 1 h 49 m
Babes
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Summary After becoming pregnant from a one-night stand, Eden (Ilana Glazer) leans on her married best friend and mother of two, Dawn (Michelle Buteau), to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Directed By: Pamela Adlon
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Babes’ benevolent humor skims the great heights of a Nora Ephron film for a modern take on womanhood that feels close to classic on arrival.
Babes may deal with weighted adult issues like motherhood, friendship, connection and the struggles of moving on, but, rest assured, it is a comedic gold mine of delightful punch lines.
Even more than the gloriously gross-out stuff, designed for big laughs and OMG body-horror reactions, it’s the blunt, unfiltered way they treat the ties that bind these two women that sticks with you. The humor is hormonal. Everything else is pure heart.
Babes would be a stressful film if it wasn't such a funny one, if its leads weren't so charming, their chemistry so lived-in.
While Babes begins its approach to domesticity with the same aversion to responsibility that powered “Broad City,” it ultimately settles on a more mature attitude that illustrates the way many of Glazer’s fans are growing up alongside her.
With Adlon there to spot them, Glazer and Buteau trust-fall into their respective parts, potentially unlikable qualities and all. At times, the pair get so filthy, you may not believe your ears. But strength, as the saying goes, comes from the mouth of babes.
Although Babes nails its comedic swings, the film strains to build the narrative tension and stakes needed to land its more serious moments.
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