Good best friends, if you believe what you’re watching onscreen these days, are an endangered species. The big-city rom-com, the natural habitat for the cheery sidekick, doesn’t get made as often anymore. When it does, in projects like Materialists and Too Much , as some have pointed out , the women protagonists tend to hack their way through the modern dating scene without a solid confidante by their side. It’s too bad, because the role of the best friend is deceptively difficult. It requires someone able to convey the full humanity of a character just off from the center of the narrative without overplaying the cutesiness or underplaying their depth. It takes, mostly, someone like Jenny Slate .

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