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It's a great film made with style and heart and hope, a cautionary parable and an almost certain Oscar contender.
[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 the masterful third installment in this trilogy of truth and consequence.
As each story comes to its conclusion, some characters rise above, while others are crushed under the weight of the day's events. The tales are equal parts miracle and tragedy. And that's often what life is, which makes Babel ring true.
One of the most challenging and saddest movies of the year -- and also one of the most memorable.
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.
I can understand why Babel is up for so many Oscars (R)--it is elegantly written and shot, and harrowing to watch. The suffering each character experiences is palpable, gritty, and realistic.
Mature themes mark stories about communication.
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.
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