‘For Worse’ Review: Amy Landecker’s Thoughtful and Deeply Feminine Debut Celebrates New Beginnings at Any Age

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Tomris Laffly In life (and often times, in movies), things have to get a lot worse before they can get a little better. In “For Worse,” the versatile and immensely watchable “Transparent” star Amy Landecker’s good-natured narrative feature debut as a writer and director, life gets considerably chaotic for Lauren, a sober and recently divorced West Coast mom trying to give a different direction to her life with her newfound freedom.

It used to be that characters like Lauren — usually defined by that somewhat cringe-inducing and overused “women above a certain age” phrase — were a rarity in cinema.

But these days — especially considering several terrific recent releases of all sizes like “Suze,” “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” “The Idea of You” and even “Babygirl” — we don’t seem to be living in that same cinematic world anymore, one that refused to acknowledge the existence, realities and complex sexual desires of women, well, above a certain age.

That is certainly good news for all audiences (okay, especially for us aging women) and inquisitive artists like Landecker seem to feel further empowered to honor the intricacies of their own truth as life evolves and takes unexpected turns.