City Cinema: Sorry, Baby

Comedy.
14A. Coarse Language/sexual content.
Dir: Eva Victor, US, 2025, 103 min.
Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi.

“Eva Victor has made an astonishing debut feature writing, directing, and starring in the jarringly humane comedy Sorry, Baby… More a trigger warning than a spoiler: Agnes has been sexually assaulted by a trusted acquaintance. This event plays at the center of the film, but is treated less like a shocking reveal and more like the gentle peeling back of an onion… The bad thing happens off-screen, with the camera waiting outside the house for Agnes as the sky goes from day to night… While all of this sounds grim, Victor weaves absurdist humor throughout, recognizing the deeply ridiculous moments that exist even in the midst of trauma. Through this complexity, she also showcases moments of grace, breadcrumbs that lead us to how a person might pull through a bad thing to find something beyond it…Agnes is deeply awkward, offering a hook-up to an open-hearted neighbor (Lady Bird’s Lucas Hedges) then commenting carelessly on how his body. In these socially awkward moments of naked honesty, Victor allows us into the intimate world of a woman lost. Her underbelly is soft, and her impulses can be weird and messy. And in that, it’s impossible not to fall for Victor’s Sorry, Baby as it embraces the mess that is growing from hurt to healing… Bittersweet, brilliant, and heartwarmingly funny.” —Kristy Puchko, Mashable