Run time: 104 mins

Two lifelong best friends find their relationship tested as one of them navigates single motherhood in this delightfully crude comedy.

It’s a fact of life: eventually, we all grow up. Our priorities shift; habits and tastes that seemed to define us change. Dawn (Michelle Buteau) supposedly has her life together; she has a loving husband and a brand new second child, but below her nurturing surface, she is drowning under the pressure of being a woman who “has it all”. Her more free-spirited yoga instructor best friend Eden (Ilana Glazer, who also penned the story) opts for single motherhood after an ill-fated tryst.

Despite Eden recognising that Dawn is struggling to keep her many plates spinning, she still intends to rely on her friend to form the village that raises her child. Both characters, despite outwardly having very different lives, are engaged in childish self-delusion and turn to each other to substantiate that they are both perfect and making wise choices.

Buteau and Glazer make for a magnetic duo. Together, they make Babes a buddy-comedy that’s scathingly funny and truly heartfelt.