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

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

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

For all the care put into its images, Babies is startling unreflective, a series of elegantly shot drive-bys devoid of insight or empathy.

| Original Score: C- | May 11, 2010

The movie is pleasing -- who doesn't love gurgling babies? -- but as anodyne as a series of episodes from America's Funniest Home Videos.

| May 10, 2010

Presents itself as an ethnographic meditation on the first year of life but is better approached as an "oooooh" and "awww" fest...

| May 10, 2010

Who needs heavy analysis when all you want is a cute fix?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 7, 2010

Spoiler alert: babies are similar around the world. That's it. While that may be just barely enough to hold together a 온라인카지노추천 special, it's not nearly enough for a feature documentary.

| May 7, 2010

Really, it's a nature documentary, except that the topic is human nature and the subjects are the only humans on the planet whose behaviour is unaffected by the camera.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 7, 2010

Blessed with no narration, an absence of gimmickry and an embracing love for its subject matter, Babies is as sweet, joyful and filled with curiosity as a you-know-what.

| Original Score: B | May 7, 2010

Babies begins to gain telling traction as the small triumphs start to come faster toward the sixth-month mark. Things begin to look up once the infants begin to, well, look up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 7, 2010

Watch a baby for a while and chances are you'll be entertained. Multiply that times four and you have BabiesM/em>, a documentary as funny, charming and un-self-conscious as its subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 7, 2010

Might restore your faith in our perplexing, peculiar and stubbornly lovable species.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 7, 2010

Babies is a celebration of the gloriously mundane.

| Original Score: B+ | May 7, 2010

With its fantastic images, which prompt us to grin in unison and nod in knowing recognition, this documentary is as soothing and edifying as watching a video loop of the Yuletide log.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2010

Everyone tells you how to raise a kid -- this doc shows you how to feel like one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2010

Babies is a mesmerizing and weirdly manipulative experience, combining wide-eyed innocence and shrewd cultural commentary as it chronicles the folkways and familial rites of four starkly different societies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2010

The cry of a baby is ruthlessly, evolutionarily designed to be one of the most irritating sounds on Earth. So why would you want to hear it (many times) on massive movie theater speakers?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 7, 2010

The parents from Mongolia should travel around the world to demonstrate their superior swaddling techniques. Never has wrapping a blanket around an infant looked more like a work of art.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2010

There is almost literally no difference between watching Babies and just watching a baby.

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2010

The most awwwwwww-inspiring movie ever made.

| Original Score: B+ | May 6, 2010