Obvious Child (2014)

Obvious Child, written and directed by newcomer Gillian Robespierre, is far from the issue-centered, feminist manifesto that the talk about its resolution suggests. There’s an abundance of profanity in the film, most of which could be classified as equal opportunity gross-out humor that wouldn’t be out of place in a Judd Apatow movie, except that it’s about female anatomy, which Apatow saves for shock value and not laughs. But overall, it’s a fairly conventional, albeit transposed — meaning girl meets boy instead of boy meets girl — romantic comedy. Read the full review here.