By turns tender and raucous, Pamela Adlon’s feature-length directorial debut, Babes, spins the uneasy, unwelcome, weirdly cool corporeal realities of pregnancy into heartfelt comic gold.

Rocco T. Thompson

Slant Magazine

Although Babes nails its comedic swings, the film strains to build the narrative tension and stakes needed to land its more serious moments.

Lovia Gyarkye

The Hollywood Reporter

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.