Review: Unfiltered and unabashed, 'Babes' gets at the basic truth of motherhood
Somebody needs to explain to me why Pamela Adlon's "Babes" is being released the weekend after Mother's Day. If ever a film stood a chance of becoming the "Love Actually" of Mother's Day, it's "Babes."
Sure, it's rated R for sexual material, language throughout and some drug use. But how surprising is that? It's written by "Broad City's" characteristically unfiltered Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz, and anyone who's ever seen Adlon's FX comedy, "Better Things," knows that she too appreciates the power of sexual material, language throughout and some drug use as maternal survival tools.
If Hollywood has a patron saint of motherhood, it's Adlon, making her feature directorial debut; she understands that parenthood, like life,
