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

In different hands this could have been a great movie: profound, sexy, glamorous, unflinching. Babygirl, sadly, is none of those things.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2025

Not all viewers will be equally ready to invest in the fantasy of Babygirl, but the awkward space between safe distance and all-out commitment is where the movie invites us to spend some time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2025

Emotionally naked, unapologetically provocative, and defiantly playful, Reijn's film joyfully explores the complicated ties that bind. Amid stiff competition, she delivers one of the sexiest, most thrilling films of the year.

| Jan 30, 2025

Babygirl... is an intoxicating erotic drama that is far more complex, and therefore much more interesting, than the comparable Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy (2015-18).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2025

An exploration of carnal desire that is at once fiercely erotic, nuanced and raucously funny, with Kidman charging into the breach, flaws bared, taking everything that Reijn hurls her way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Reijn likes setting traps more than springing them. She knows an anticlimax can be fun too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2025

Whether you think it works or not, it is a seriously intentioned drama with a satirical edge...

| Jan 14, 2025

For a film that strives so painfully and obviously to be provocative and risque, Babygirl... feels more synthetic and mannered than spontaneous and transgressive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 14, 2025

I don’t think the two films are interested in exploring the exact same questions, nor are they stylistically similar, but Babygirl might’ve evoked more of a sense of Eyes Wide Shut's danger…

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 12, 2025

Risk and bondage are seldom as playful as they are in Babygirl. Outrageous musical cues – George Michael’s Father Figure, Mozart’s Requiem – and permanent Christmas decorations amplify Reijn’s sly, sexy sense of humour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 10, 2025

Nothing is off the table, really, ethically or psychoanalytically. Yet Babygirl isn’t guiding us confidently to some fixed destination. It’s simply feeling its way forward, orgasm by orgasm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2025

Reijn manages to give life to a film that, beyond its ethical and moral repercussions, is truly unpredictable, even with regard to the character of Romy's husband, Jacob, who is very well played by the Spaniard Antonio Banderas. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 10, 2025

Kidman has previously played not dissimilar roles in upscale metropolitan locations... there is nobody better at playing elegant and soignée and sophisticated. But she and Dickinson can’t deliver the erotic thrill of actual danger.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2025

Babygirl's problem is not Romy's desire to be dominated. It's making her erotic liberation so triumphant that the story's sexual politics don't matter.

| Jan 8, 2025

Reijn’s film — seen the second time, at least – only needs its nerve and its interest in what Kidman can do, which is more than I even realized.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2025

If Dickinson ably conveys a young man’s daring and uncertainty, Kidman dives into Romy’s white-hot core of hidden shame, everything the armor has been constructed to conceal, and the unbridled release that comes with finally being shed of it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2025

Kidman is the big deal here, and it is the frisky, introspective elasticity of her performance that sent me out of the theater on a feverish high.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2025