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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 24 Jul 2017

Slate cements her status as a kind of later-day Lucille Ball, gifted in physical comedy and possessed of a dithering combination of smarts…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 23 Jul 2017

The actors fling themselves with forced charm into their narrowly defined roles, and Robespierre juggles the story lines with a bland vigor…

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By Zach Schonfeld (13) for Newsweek (1,534) on 23 Jul 2017

Landline doesn't exploit the retro setting for gimmicky punchlines…

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By Erika W. Smith (54) for Bust Magazine (182) on 23 Jul 2017

Jenny Slate's performance is fantastic, as are Edie Falco's, Abby Quinn's, and the rest of the cast. Make sure to bring a lot of Kleenex to this one…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 23 Jul 2017

It still can't quite transcend its sitcom structure - but it's at least honest and funny…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 20 Jul 2017

The film has a central problem in that Jenny Slate's Dana never evokes sympathy, her character using people and situations to her own ends,…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 20 Jul 2017

It’s a light musing on adulthood and monogamy and sisterhood, washed in Pavlovian period nostalgia. The revelations are gentle, but worthwhile…

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By Joyce Slaton (58) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 20 Jul 2017

Family confronts infidelity in mature but uplifting dramedy…

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By Susan Wloszczyna (541) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 20 Jul 2017

A forlornly funny and emotionally bruising dramedy that rarely misses an opportunity to reveal humans as the flawed and occasionally awful…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Jul 2017

Landline never finds its emotional footing…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 19 Jul 2017

Director/co-writer Gillian Robespierre is nowhere near as self-indulgent as Noah Baumbach but she’s aiming for the same audience…

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By Julia Felsenthal (28) for Vogue (149) on 19 Jul 2017

If Obvious Child offered a quick sketch of its broader universe, Landline, Robespierre, Holm, and Slate's latest collaboration, is a carefully…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 19 Jul 2017

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

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 19 Jul 2017

Flippant anxiety romantic comedy from the team behind Obvious Child shows that you can get pretty far but not quite all the way on wink-wink…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 19 Jul 2017

In sweetly calibrated moments — a downtown drug deal gone wrong; Falco alone under strobe lights, swaying ecstatically to Donna Summer —…

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By Aisha Harris (36) for Slate (2,081) on 19 Jul 2017

A uniformly excellent cast and some genuinely moving moments make Landline easy to fall for…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Jul 2017

Tonal swerves can be a source of useful friction; here they’re simply awkward, and Robespierre’s efforts to meld sentiment and laughs grow…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for Reel Talk Online (378) on 19 Jul 2017

Landline is at times endearing, funny, and crushing, but it is instantly forgettable…

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By Rain Jokinen (125) for SFist (94) on 19 Jul 2017

The real surprise is it managed to do something I never thought possible: make me feel nostalgic for the '90's…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 19 Jul 2017

The actors are all terrific: as Ali, Quinn has a radiant wildcat sweetness--there's fragility behind all that hissing…

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