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

| Dec 26, 2017

What were they thinking?

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

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

Frustratingly stillborn.

| Original Score: D+ | May 3, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2005

Unusually austere and ambiguous.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2004

A dismayingly skillful exercise in high-style creepiness.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2004

I didn't find it spellbinding at all.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2004

Enervated and lifeless.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 31, 2004

| Original Score: B- | Oct 30, 2004

The picture, as a whole, never gets beyond its surface.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2004

Too highbrow for the multiplex and too literal for the hipsters, it's unsatisfying both as gothic camp and serious cinema.

| Oct 29, 2004

Mystery is fine. We like mystery. Muddle is another thing altogether, and jerking around the audience in the name of 'art' is pretty unforgivable.

| Oct 29, 2004

Presents an intriguing premise about death and the possibility of rebirth in an elegant, melancholy and deliberate fashion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2004

Lingering performances by Nicole Kidman and 11-year-old Canadian actor Cameron Bright, as well as assured direction by Glazer ... complement an unusually thoughtful script that uses a minimum of dialogue to maximum effect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2004

Strangely inert, a beautifully filmed bad idea.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2004

The movie never delivers on its promises.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2004

Possibly, this idea would have worked as comedy. Say, if the kid had said something like, 'I am dead people.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2004

It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that ultimately reveals... not much.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2004