Even when it avoids some complications with its sexual daringness, I’m grateful for the richness of this as an adult drama directed with a technical efficiency that complicates and reconfigures some of its simpler ideas through formal elements.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2025

It makes cosmic sense that the same stretch of time that produced the grotesque post-election quote “Your body, my choice” would also yield a movie that too often (if inadvertently) encapsulates said message.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2025

What is undeniable is how vital Reijn’s movie is in enforcing a woman’s perspective in all its contradictory, confounding nuances.

| Apr 3, 2025

With an intelligent script and outstanding performances, [Babygirl] raises complex questions about the role of women in both professional and personal life, without offering easy answers. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 17, 2025

Sexy, provocative, and surprisingly funny, Babygirl shrewdly subverts any expectations of a typical erotic thriller.

| Mar 12, 2025

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson's sexy playtime in Babygirl seems to want to delve deeper into the characters' psyches, but it only does so at the surface level and gets boring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2025

Anchored by a fearless Nicole Kidman, the film flutters between desire and control, but its refusal to embrace the messiness of either keeps it from delivering the gut punch it promises.

| Original Score: 3/ 5 | Feb 26, 2025

It is Nicole Kidman who rises to the occasion to anchor Babygirl, even in its most shaky bits. The actor's performance here is simply miraculous- so open and raw and intense.

| Feb 23, 2025

The film is worth seeing for the performances alone even if the story is not quite an affair to remember.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2025

...Babygirl remains an engaging watch, largely due to the strength of its performances and its alluring atmosphere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2025

Every frame, scene and shot is controlled and presented in a way that's endearing. But unlike a quintessential, Tarantino movie, the dramatic verve is missing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 21, 2025

American cinema has always had a prudish approach to sexuality on-screen, linking kinks with villainy and mental instability. But Kidman has long gravitated toward sexual characters, and Babygirl is an ideal showcase for her fearless physicality.

| Feb 21, 2025

Babygirl wants to be challenging and incendiary, and it could’ve been all those things if it had a clearer through-line of what it’s really trying to say.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2025

What I like about this movie is that the woman decides that the kink ain't all that bad, and everyone else just needs to get their mind around it.

| Feb 11, 2025

There's a lot that is supposed to be going on in this movie... But somehow, it didn't hold for me as either an erotic film or a film that dealt with power dynamics in a substantive way.

| Feb 11, 2025

These are really thorny questions that the movie takes very seriously, and there's a comedic bent throughout that lets you know you're in really good hands.

| Feb 11, 2025

There is a vivid eroticism to the film that is quite provocative and stirring, but it's obviously more than just a series of sex scenes. Thematically speaking it's a nuanced and wonderfully playful examination of power dynamics and sexual desire.

| Original Score: B | Feb 10, 2025

In our prudish, moralistic age, Babygirl portrays an aspect of the sexual impulse that doesn’t fit the prevailing templates but feels unnervingly true.

| Feb 9, 2025

While “Saltburn” and “Promising Young Woman” were better looks at shifting dynamics, “Babygirl” could crack the door to upending office relationships. It’s a juicy story that practically begs to be on the cover of a tabloid.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2025

Do not miss the clever twist. Kidman never abandons herself. We never see her absolute hunger for the young intern. The only kinky thing is Kidman drinking milk fully dressed on all fours.

| Feb 5, 2025