Fresh
Robespierre's direction of the many fine actors she assembled is assured, her sense of pacing nicely loose-limbed.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Overview
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Director and cast
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90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Despite a few too-cute moments, the movie is both smarter and more sympathetic than that glib shorthand.
Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Slate is adept with biting remarks and self-deprecation, and she balances Donna somewhere between flightiness and innocence.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Sorry, partisans, but there's nothing obvious about "Obvious Child."
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rotten
Slate is too pretty a face and Robespierre is too limited a writer for Obvious Child to rise above conventional romantic plotting or to make its low comedy meaningfully transgressive.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
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