Babel (2006)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 194
Fresh: 134 | Rotten: 60
In Babel, there are no villains, only victims of fate and circumstance. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu weaves four of their woeful stories into this mature and multidimensional film.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 17
In Babel, there are no villains, only victims of fate and circumstance. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu weaves four of their woeful stories into this mature and multidimensional film.
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The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the death of one of their children has sent Susan into a deep depression. Richard and Susan's other two children have been left in the care of Amelia (Adriana Barraza), their housekeeper. Amelia is
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Brad Pitt
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Cate Blanchett
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Gael García Bernal
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Rinko Kikuchi
Chieko -
Adriana Barraza
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Koji Yakusho
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Said Tarchani
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Boubker Ait El Caid
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Elle Fanning
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Nathan Gamble
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Mohamed Akhzam
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Peter Wight
Tom -
Abdelkader Bara
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Mustapha Rachidi
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Driss Roukhe
Alarid -
Clifton Collins Jr.
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Robert Esquivel
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Michael Peña
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Satoshi Nikaido
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All Critics (203) | Top Critics (52) | Fresh (134) | Rotten (60) | DVD (34)
Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest sprawling, dispersed art-film blockbuster prompts a question: Does he just not know how to tell a story?
Top CriticIf misery is your pornography, Babel is your holy grail.
It's a great film made with style and heart and hope, a cautionary parable and an almost certain Oscar contender.
The experience of watching Babel is undeniably riveting: Even if the film doesn't really lead anywhere, you still can't take your eyes off it.
[Iñárritu] remains as entranced as ever by fate, loss and the interconnectedness of humankind, and I admire him for it. But Babel isn't the last or best word on that subject. It's just a lot of talk.
True to its title, Babel hinges on missed and faulty communications of both the personal and the cultural variety. It's a sweeping movie about characters who often suffer from tunnel vision.
Babel is a beautifully depressing film about responsibility, redemption, and ultimately that there are consequences to people's actions, regardless of who they are and where they live.
The gimmick-machinery whirrs, but the human beings in it can't breath
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga have fashioned their ideas with conviction and obvious care.
Babel...belongs to an unfortunately proliferating genre that might be called the higher kitsch.
...language acts more as a means to distance and isolate us than aid in our understanding of one another.
A lumbering, stitched-together mess.
Babel directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is one of the most compelling films to date.
an affecting examination of disconnected lives in an interconnected world.
Smart, interesting to look at, and courageous, this is one of the best films of 2006.
There is some hope, in Iñárritu's world, each of the characters may have a family and love, but this is shown to be, at best, a diversion against the real world, which is a much more intolerable, incomprehensive place.
The kind of film that will echo deep in your soul.
Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga cap off the trilogy of films that began with "Amores Perros" and "21 Grams" with a rich and engrossing drama.
A better title for this film would have been "Murphy's Law," as Inarritu has a relentless grip on the banality of its tenets.
Rubbish so pretentious it would make the folks behind Crash begin to blush.
Babel es más que eso, es contradicción y antítesis, es la obra cumbre y gloriosa de un visionario en un retrato triste y dramático de nuestro mundo.
An impressive, beautifully acted work with a tragic sense of life. The formality of its structure controls a seething anger.
Well acted and handsomely photographed, but still extraordinarily overpraised and overblown, a middlebrow piece of near-nonsense: the kind of self-conscious arthouse cinema that is custom-tailored and machine-tooled for the dinner-party demographic.
Acaba trazendo [seu diretor e seu roteirista] em um caminho que já percorreram duas vezes %u2013 só que, aqui, eles o fazem de maneira bem mais esquemática, melodramática e, conseqüentemente, menos interessante.
You can't make the same film three times and not expect people to carp. Go and see it with politically-minded friends and thrash it out afterwards over coffee.
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- Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?
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- Yussef: I killed the American, I was the only one who shot at you. They did nothing... nothing. Kill me, but save my brother, he did nothing... nothing. Save my brother... he did nothing.
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