Even if you don’t “like” babies, you’ll like Babies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2023

Babies has unquestionable charm, and permissive grace. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 14, 2022

Is Babies cute? Yes for a short while. But without a sense of drama, conflict or insight it is little more than a Baby's First Year photo album come to life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

While it doesn't completely lack structure, the informative nature found in most documentaries is absent.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 29, 2020

What would have been interesting, perhaps, would have been to have truly explored the cultural differences and their impact on growing up and parenting.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

The kids are absolutely charming, and each scene is beautifully shot. But there is no narrative thread, and the minimal social observations are blindingly obvious.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 27, 2020

Absolutely charming, each baby is more of a scene stealer than the one before. The giggly, happy faces, feigned crying and tantrums, the resilience. . .you can't help but love each one of these little rugrats.

| Nov 7, 2019

The fascinating parts of Babies are weighed down by too much of the same thing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 24, 2019

Some may find the sentiment contrived and the cuteness cloying. But this is something we've never seen before: a movie uniquely devoted to babies. There's a reason people are mesmerized by them...the film casts the same spell.

| Jul 23, 2019

Words like "miracle" and "precious" are used so often in reference to infants, they've grown rather empty. With simplicity and grace, Babies fills them up again.

| Oct 4, 2018

Unfortunately, Balmes never takes his pop anthropology project beyond the observational stage. Babies doesn't offer much in the way of insightful revelations, and the scenes become repetitive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2018

See if you can stop smiling as you exit the theater. There is so much more to Babies than cuteness, but that charm goes a long way.

| Jun 29, 2017

Hopefully next time Balmes makes a documentary, he'll have more of a purpose in mind, because without it, he's simply not giving his audience any reason to care.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2012

If not falling head over heels for a film that is literally just 80 minutes of cute babies makes me a grump, so be it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2012

On a scale of one to a hundred (one featuring no babies at all, and a hundred featuring all the babies in all of existence) this film could still only be classified as 'babies'.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 2, 2011

We realise this is humanity at its most homogenous; we begin to go separate ways only when our surrounding culture shoves us into its own strictures

| Apr 30, 2011

With deft editing, we journey back and forth sharing the first 12 months with each child. What impact does the environment have on each baby? That is the intriguing question and as we observe and decide for ourselves

| Apr 30, 2011

Inaugura um novo gnero: o do "filme-awwwwww".

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2011

It won't make a dent in the box office and it can hardly be considered essential viewing, but it's serene, unpretentious, and boasts more than enough cute moments to justify its existence. Parents, I imagine, will love it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2011

A simple idea, but very nicely done by French documentarian Thomas Balms.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2011