...a fairly absurd premise that is, at the outset, employed to surprisingly compelling and mesmerizing effect by Glazer...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2025

Fascinating "what if" scenario captured on film led by a bravura, if understated, performance from Nicole Kidman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2024

A hypnotic mediation on grief, anchored by a stunning performance by Kidman and a scene-stealing Anne Heche. That the film was critiqued for its infamous bathtub scene proves folks missed the point.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 25, 2024

One is the idea that pure romantic love is eternal, or we believe it should be. The other is taking a close look at what happens when that romantic partner is ripped from our lives, sometimes in unexpected ways.

| Feb 20, 2024

With turns of tragedy rather than suspense, Glazer conceived and executes an inspired and sensitive drama that deserves reassessment as a carefully considered, masterfully made film that finds a place in its viewer and lingers there like a haunting dream.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2022

An intimate drama about strife, death, and love elevated by Jonathan Glazer's understated direction and Nicole Kidman's stupendous performance... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2022

Glazer leaves narrative threads dangling and a purposeful ambiguousness that seems less a desire to subvert Hollywood closure as a fey, fancified gesture of presumed depth on the film's part.

| Feb 3, 2020

This is a grown-up, intelligent, beautiful film. Rejoice.

| Dec 26, 2017

Ten years after premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2004, Jonathan Glazer's Birth remains as powerfully mysterious as ever.

| Mar 31, 2014

What begins as a promising and provocative melodrama gradually turns into na conventional and frustrating movie, aimless and pretentious.

| Original Score: C | Apr 23, 2011

What were they thinking?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Kidman has another turkey for her resume.

| Apr 29, 2009

Manhattan-based supernatural thriller done in the tone of "Rosemary's Baby" starts out strong but loses all steam in its third act.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

The setup of Glazer's hypnotic movie suggests a supernatural thriller, but the execution is pure European art film. Kidman gives a bold performance as a woman in extreme distress, but the script is hooey. Birth is ridiculous, and oddly unforgettable.

| Nov 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The film fudges the conceit by pulling you back and forth between disbelief and acceptance, planting compelling doubts but contradicting them.

| Sep 16, 2005

all the best and all the worst things associated with the phrase "art film"

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 12, 2005