The movie keeps viewers guessing for the most part, leaning on tried and tested horror tropes to maintain the sense of unease, even as viewers are steered to wonder if the danger is coming from inside the house.

| Aug 28, 2024

While Bohl’s story is the epitome of a waking fever dream, it never becomes a gloomy slog. Instead, it’s imbued with a playful and inventive campiness that is emblematic of the absurdly torturous realities of parenthood.

| Nov 2, 2023

The purposely ambiguous cinematography, with its abrupt cuts and perplexing visuals, is clearly a manipulative tool that Wohl uses to great effect.

| Jul 25, 2023

A disorienting psychological horror-thriller that perfectly captures maternal fears and mental battles new parents can face.

| Jun 16, 2023

Without firmer direction and more control over genre and tone, what Wohl wants to render as ambiguous gets received with ambivalence.

| Jun 6, 2023

Baby Ruby wants to get viewers to think about postpartum depression, but this gimmicky and dull drama will just give some viewers a headache from all the baby screaming and mother's hallucinations that the movie uses as weak filler.

| Apr 15, 2023

A mesmerizing misfire.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 21, 2023

I usually avoid movies that show danger to children (especially babies) but this one held my attention.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 16, 2023

You can look at it as a dark comedy, a thriller, a horror movie, or as a psychological study. It gets to a lot of truth about how confused you feel when you're a new mom.

| Feb 15, 2023

Hyperbolic, with too many red-herring narrative strategies trying to convince us something more sinister than clinical is going on here, Baby Ruby intrigues, but proves more effortful than effective.

| Feb 13, 2023

Even beyond the specificity of being a parent, “Baby Ruby” speaks to a universal feeling of losing oneself after a significant life change and struggling to face or even recognize their new self in the process.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 10, 2023

While tonally Baby Ruby seems to achieve what it sets out to do, the film meanders away from anything more novel or provocative, unable to decide on a direction.

| Feb 10, 2023

A horror story for women. I hesitate to presume anything on behalf of my fellow life voyagers, but I think women will instantly recognize the dark outlines of the story told here.

| Feb 10, 2023

The existential terror of a universal situation—motherhood--is whiffed by the cartoonish horror.

| Feb 6, 2023

I expected something more substantial from a recognized playwright, something more than a post-partum Rosemary’s Baby, but Merlant almost pulls this one out of the fire without singe marks.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2023

Baby Ruby shows plenty of initial promise, but its refusal to follow through on threads and its reliance on basic scares leaves it feeling hollow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2023

... sprinkles humor amid the suspense, never taking its playful misdirection too seriously.

| Feb 3, 2023

[Baby Ruby] operates at a high-pitched melodrama-horror level, and the constant frenzy becomes exhausting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2023

Disorienting, tense, funny and scary.

| Feb 3, 2023

Noémie Merlant and Kit Harington's Instagram-perfect life unravels once their bundle of joy arrives in this tense, thoughtful, slightly unfulfilled debut feature from playwright Bess Wohl.

| Feb 3, 2023