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Call Jane Review: Banks Is Great In Timely, But Anticlimactic Drama [Sundance]
In a time when abortion rights are still being fought for, Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane seems incredibly timely. Co-written by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi, and based loosely around the Jane Collective, a network of women who helped others get safe abortions in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Call Jane’s heart is in the right place, even as it makes some rather underwhelming narrative choices. Elevated by a strong performance from Elizabeth Banks, Nagy’s film is surprisingly mellow and anticlimactic despite the strength of its subject matter.
