As contradictory as it might sound, writer-director Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby is a wryly, unrelentingly funny movie that happens to be about the shattering after-effects of sexual assault. Victor’s feature-length directorial debut doesn’t use humor to leaven the seriousness of its subject matter, but to ponder its essential power as Agnes (Victor) tries to figure out how life can be so funny and so terrible all at once in the wake of her assault. We first meet Agnes while she’s reconnecting with her old college roommate, Lydie (Naomi Ackie). They haven’t seen each other in a while, but we can tell right away, thanks to the lived-in authenticity of Victor and Ackie’s performances, that theirs is the sort of relationship that can be picked up where it left off. Watching Agnes and Lydie curled up on the couch, laughing constantly as they swap stories and jokes and knock back glasses of wine, we can feel all the hundreds of other evenings they’ve spent in just the same way. – Slant Magazine
“That a story about post-traumatic dissociation and recovery is this funny and charming is a minor miracle.” – AV Club