Elizabeth Banks plays a radicalised housewife in need of a life-saving termination in this well-intentioned and timely drama.

If Call Jane’s narrative is largely paint-by-numbers, its closing scene eschews narrative conventions. We are left with names, circumstances, the then-as-now cries for help, and the knowledge that there is so much more still to burn.

[An] entertaining, if not exactly heavyweight, movie.

Nagy’s Call Jane had the potential to dive into the topic of women’s reproductive rights, but it doesn’t lean towards being revolutionary.