Landline

Jenny Slate's Landline finds the analog joy it's reaching for.

2744d ago

Jenny Slate's Landline finds the analog joy it's reaching for.

2744d ago

Jenny Slate's Landline finds the analog joy it's reaching for.

2744d ago

Landline is a film about many things: sisterhood, infidelity, growing up, marriage, parenting, self-discovery, etc. That it manages to have illuminating insights about each, and none feeling like they are taking the backseat, is a feat unto itself.

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Gillian Robespierre's new comedy is a lively wisp of '90s New York nostalgia about two sisters and their family of secrets.

2945d ago

Landline is a film about many things: sisterhood, infidelity, growing up, marriage, parenting, self-discovery, etc. That it manages to have illuminating insights about each, and none feeling like they are taking the backseat, is a feat unto itself.

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The actors are all terrific.

2744d ago

Landline is a film about many things: sisterhood, infidelity, growing up, marriage, parenting, self-discovery, etc. That it manages to have illuminating insights about each, and none feeling like they are taking the backseat, is a feat unto itself.

2945d ago

The actors are all terrific.

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The actors are all terrific.

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Jenny Slate picks up Landline, a warm family comedy from the director of Obvious Child.

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“Landline” is by no means a total whiff. The performances are all outstanding, and there are scattered scenes throughout the film that resonate.

2744d ago

Jenny Slate picks up Landline, a warm family comedy from the director of Obvious Child.

2744d ago

“Landline” is by no means a total whiff. The performances are all outstanding, and there are scattered scenes throughout the film that resonate.

2744d ago

Landline offers viewers a rueful glimpse of a vanished time and place. Along the way, it’s often unexpectedly and guffawingly funny.

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Landline follows the contours of a conventional ensemble comedy-drama. Which it is, from one angle. But the writing's often prickly and funny. The actors aren't tested or challenged, necessarily, but they're playing in comfortable grooves and there's a lot of satisfaction in watching the results.

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‘Landline’ is a hit and miss followup from ‘Obvious Child’ team Jenny Slate & Gillian Robespierre.

2945d ago

Landline follows the contours of a conventional ensemble comedy-drama. Which it is, from one angle. But the writing's often prickly and funny. The actors aren't tested or challenged, necessarily, but they're playing in comfortable grooves and there's a lot of satisfaction in watching the results.

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One of the more welcome pleasures of “Landline” is that it takes place in 1995, right before mobile phones began their siege upon the general populace.

2744d ago

One of the more welcome pleasures of “Landline” is that it takes place in 1995, right before mobile phones began their siege upon the general populace.

2744d ago

One of the more welcome pleasures of “Landline” is that it takes place in 1995, right before mobile phones began their siege upon the general populace.

2744d ago

Landline follows the contours of a conventional ensemble comedy-drama. Which it is, from one angle. But the writing's often prickly and funny. The actors aren't tested or challenged, necessarily, but they're playing in comfortable grooves and there's a lot of satisfaction in watching the results.

2744d ago

Landline offers viewers a rueful glimpse of a vanished time and place. Along the way, it’s often unexpectedly and guffawingly funny.

2744d ago

“Landline” is by no means a total whiff. The performances are all outstanding, and there are scattered scenes throughout the film that resonate.

2744d ago

Jenny Slate picks up Landline, a warm family comedy from the director of Obvious Child.

2744d ago

Landline offers viewers a rueful glimpse of a vanished time and place. Along the way, it’s often unexpectedly and guffawingly funny.

2744d ago

Landline is a time capsule of the last decade of the 20th century: Mad About You, slam poetry, California Raisins, Blockbuster, cassette tapes, Hillary Clinton fashions, and Stacey Q’s “Two of Hearts,” as well as the ubiquitous landline telephones that appear throughout the film.

2744d ago

Landline is a time capsule of the last decade of the 20th century: Mad About You, slam poetry, California Raisins, Blockbuster, cassette tapes, Hillary Clinton fashions, and Stacey Q’s “Two of Hearts,” as well as the ubiquitous landline telephones that appear throughout the film.

2744d ago

Landline is a time capsule of the last decade of the 20th century: Mad About You, slam poetry, California Raisins, Blockbuster, cassette tapes, Hillary Clinton fashions, and Stacey Q’s “Two of Hearts,” as well as the ubiquitous landline telephones that appear throughout the film.

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'Obvious Child' duo returns with story of neurotic New York family – and gets hit with the curse of the sophomore slump.

2744d ago

'Obvious Child' duo returns with story of neurotic New York family – and gets hit with the curse of the sophomore slump.

2744d ago

'Obvious Child' duo returns with story of neurotic New York family – and gets hit with the curse of the sophomore slump.

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Love Jenny Slate? Then you’ll likely enjoy her latest collaboration with Gillian Robespierre: a familiar, 90s-set yarn of dysfuncti familial fidelity featuring VHS tapes. But if you’re allergic … run fast and far.

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Jenny Slate reteams with Gillian Robespierre, who directed her in 'Obvious Child,' for this look at adultery and dysfunctional New York families, co-starring Edie Falco, John Turturro, Jay Duplass and Abby Quinn.

2945d ago

Love Jenny Slate? Then you’ll likely enjoy her latest collaboration with Gillian Robespierre: a familiar, 90s-set yarn of dysfuncti familial fidelity featuring VHS tapes. But if you’re allergic … run fast and far.

2945d ago

Love Jenny Slate? Then you’ll likely enjoy her latest collaboration with Gillian Robespierre: a familiar, 90s-set yarn of dysfuncti familial fidelity featuring VHS tapes. But if you’re allergic … run fast and far.

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For all the profanity and naughty behavior, it has the timid, ingratiating vibe of a television sitcom, sticking to safe and familiar emotional territory.

2744d ago

For all the profanity and naughty behavior, it has the timid, ingratiating vibe of a television sitcom, sticking to safe and familiar emotional territory.

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As in Gillian Robespierre’s prior collaboration with Jenny Slate, the film’s studied amiability becomes obnoxious.

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Landline is no Obvious Child, but Jenny Slate is an absolute star.

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As in Gillian Robespierre’s prior collaboration with Jenny Slate, the film’s studied amiability becomes obnoxious.

2744d ago

As in Gillian Robespierre’s prior collaboration with Jenny Slate, the film’s studied amiability becomes obnoxious.

2744d ago

For all the profanity and naughty behavior, it has the timid, ingratiating vibe of a television sitcom, sticking to safe and familiar emotional territory.

2744d ago

Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to “Obvious Child” offers a believably fractured family, but never rises above shopworn genre.

2744d ago

Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to “Obvious Child” offers a believably fractured family, but never rises above shopworn genre.

2744d ago

Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to “Obvious Child” offers a believably fractured family, but never rises above shopworn genre.

2744d ago