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Birth (2004)

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Reviews Counted:136

Fresh:53

Rotten:83

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: A well-mounted production is undermined by a muddled, absurd storyline of questionable taste.

Rated: R

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Oct 29, 2004 Limited

Box Office: $5,005,883

Synopsis: Maverick young filmmaker Jonathan Glazer affirms the promise of his brilliant debut, Sexy Beast, with his new film Birth, teaming with Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman for a metaphysical love... Maverick young filmmaker Jonathan Glazer affirms the promise of his brilliant debut, Sexy Beast, with his new film Birth, teaming with Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman for a metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Kidman stars as Anna, a delicate young widow who is on the verge of a new life when a solemn little boy appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. As Anna, Kidman achieves a breathtaking emotional transparency to portray an intelligent woman who discovers another side of herself in the face of a bizarre, yet tantalizing possibility. The actress is beautifully paired with Canadian child actor Cameron Bright, who portrays the boy interloper with a haunting stillness and conviction. Bringing an assured sense of style and form to a decidedly unconventional narrative, Glazer creates a world that is at once strange and familiar, like a fairy tale. Like many fairy tales, Birth is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a magical whole about love, mortality and the unknown. Birth is scheduled for a Nov. 5 release. [More]

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliot, Arliss Howard, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Zoe Caldwell, Milo Addica, Ted Levine, Cara Seymour

Director: Jonathan Glazer

Director: Jonathan Glazer
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriere, Milo Addica
Producer: Nick Morris, Lizie Gower
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Studio: New Line Cinema

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You want to like a movie made with the poise and precision of Birth, but the film feels only partially conceived.

Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | comment Comment
12/16/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
12/12/04
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

Managing to be both stilted and bizarre, Birth never achieves life.

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment Comment
12/11/04
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

[Bears] all the hallmarks of a too-long-in-gestation pet project: over-planned, over-thought, and meticulously fussed-with to the point of stasis.

Full Review Source: The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | comment Comment
12/05/04
Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
11/16/04
Film Threat
N/R

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Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
11/16/04
Premiere Magazine

The picture isn't scary or convincingly dramatic and is thoroughly devoid of humor or irony.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
11/13/04
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

Mesmerizing.

Full Review Source: Movie Poop Shoot | comment Comment
11/13/04
D.K. Holm
D.K. Holm
Movie Poop Shoot

Unusually austere and ambiguous.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
11/11/04
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
Slate

Looks, sounds, and feels like a Carl Theodor Dreyer film.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
11/10/04
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
N/R

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Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
11/09/04
BBC

Hilariously pretentious, it's Nicole Kidman's funniest movie since The Hours and 2004's barmiest motion picture disaster area.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
11/08/04
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

Copious strands of skill are wasted in a futile attempt to capture us in a net that's insupportable. Adult minds should rebel.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
11/08/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

It takes care and precision to make an audience go along with a premise as peril-fraught as this one, and Birth doesn't quite manage it.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
11/07/04
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

effective at creating a desolate, haunting atmosphere, an uncanny visual strategy that sustains the film for much longer than it deserves.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
11/07/04
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Flashes of brilliance which are ultimately squandered.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
11/07/04
Larry Carroll
Larry Carroll
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Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
11/06/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

There’s a mysterious, hypnotic quality to the atmosphere of the film that grabbed me and wouldn’t let go.

Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | comment Comment
11/06/04
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com

Although slightly exploitative in its provocative skin, Birth is a daring but stylishly sluggish mysterious melodrama that misses its mesmerizing, tawdry mark

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
11/06/04
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Although Birth is not a complete disaster, it comes pretty darn close.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
11/05/04
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
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