Babygirl - Movie Reviews (2024)

This is a thorny, unflinching declaration of raw female desire—and it is entirely shameless.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2024

It’s a welcome sight to see Kidman taking the type of risks once more that firmly re-establish her as an exciting talent in Hollywood over 30 years after her debut.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 4, 2024

Within the film’s 114-minute runtime, that ephemeral spark between Romy and Samuel is bottled, smashed, and left seeping across the screen, leaving an intriguing pattern in its wake.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 3, 2024

It’s the sort of intelligent, elegant adult filmmaking that is frequently lacking in modern cinema, approaching a complex theme not only with nuance and empathy but refreshing candour, all while being genuinely erotic and stylish.

Full Review | Sep 3, 2024

Many of us wondered whether the erotic thriller was even still viable in the moral minefield of 2024. Babygirl proves that the form may have matured, but it still has some moves.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

With ballsy performances from Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, Babygirl blends eroticism with sexual empowerment in a way that might not be for everyone, but will certainly find an audience that appreciates it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 2, 2024

A deliciously barbed, but wise and ultimately hopeful investigation of female sexual desire, marriage and modern power dynamics.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2024

That the Dutch director to craft some of the hottest sex scenes in a major film in years and without dropping the ball in pacing this satire on the era of the politically correct feels almost impossible.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Sep 1, 2024

With un-moralistic candor and plenty of zest, Reijn made an insightful, exciting film that eschews cheap payoff at every turn

Full Review | Aug 31, 2024

There's such clear perspective in the filmmaking behind Babygirl, but the movie’s defining trait for many might be its wicked sense of humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 31, 2024

Unnerving contemporary erotic thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 31, 2024

Kidman is ferociously good, convincing utterly as this formerly level-headed careerist whose deeply buried, long-denied appetites are simultaneously proving her making and downfall.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2024

Reijn's raw, jagged, indie-style film has all the scenes you would expect if Babygirl were a standard Hollywood neo-noir thriller but each time Reijn explores the undignified reality behind the glamour.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2024

Halina Reijn completes a very measured, very calculated and very entertaining scandal. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2024

... Like the best BDSM experiences (they say), is slightly contrived but very satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2024

Reijn creates the sense that we are watching test subjects through a two-way mirror. This doesn’t necessarily make the proceedings any less interesting. But one does maybe crave a bit more heat from a movie that is so willing to tackle intimate matters.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

[Halina Reijn] leaves so much up in the air that Babygirl lasts longer in the mind than you think it might, opening up a slipstream for female artists who are ready and willing to take such hot-button issues and take them to even wilder extremes.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

It’s a self-love story, and part of that discovery is that it’s okay to let yourself be small for a while.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

At its core it’s a coming-out story, one where the revelation isn’t about same-sex attraction or gender identity, but instead about embracing kink, minus any pride flags.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

Halina Reijn's Babygirl attempts to create a provocative portrait of power that only ends up being noxious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 30, 2024