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Babies is a joyous celebration of humankind that's loaded with adorable images, but it lacks insight and depth.
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A simple idea, but very nicely done by French documentarian Thomas Balmès. Mar 3, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A simple idea, but very nicely done by French documentarian Thomas Balmès.
Andrew Pulver
The movie is pleasing -- who doesn't love gurgling babies? -- but as anodyne as a series of episodes from America's Funniest Home Videos. May 10, 2010 | Full Review…
The movie is pleasing -- who doesn't love gurgling babies? -- but as anodyne as a series of episodes from America's Funniest Home Videos.
David Denby
Presents itself as an ethnographic meditation on the first year of life but is better approached as an "oooooh" and "awww" fest... May 10, 2010 | Full Review…
Presents itself as an ethnographic meditation on the first year of life but is better approached as an "oooooh" and "awww" fest...
David Edelstein
Really, it's a nature documentary, except that the topic is human nature and the subjects are the only humans on the planet whose behaviour is unaffected by the camera. May 7, 2010 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Really, it's a nature documentary, except that the topic is human nature and the subjects are the only humans on the planet whose behaviour is unaffected by the camera.
Rick Groen
Blessed with no narration, an absence of gimmickry and an embracing love for its subject matter, Babies is as sweet, joyful and filled with curiosity as a you-know-what. May 7, 2010 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Blessed with no narration, an absence of gimmickry and an embracing love for its subject matter, Babies is as sweet, joyful and filled with curiosity as a you-know-what.
Tom Long
Babies begins to gain telling traction as the small triumphs start to come faster toward the sixth-month mark. Things begin to look up once the infants begin to, well, look up. May 7, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4
Babies begins to gain telling traction as the small triumphs start to come faster toward the sixth-month mark. Things begin to look up once the infants begin to, well, look up.
Lisa Kennedy
Absolutely charming, each baby is more of a scene stealer than the one before. The giggly, happy faces, feigned crying and tantrums, the resilience. . .you can't help but love each one of these little rugrats. Nov 6, 2019 | Full Review…
Absolutely charming, each baby is more of a scene stealer than the one before. The giggly, happy faces, feigned crying and tantrums, the resilience. . .you can't help but love each one of these little rugrats.
Debbie Lynn Elias
The fascinating parts of Babies are weighed down by too much of the same thing. Oct 23, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The fascinating parts of Babies are weighed down by too much of the same thing.
David Harris
Some may find the sentiment contrived and the cuteness cloying. But this is something we've never seen before: a movie uniquely devoted to babies. There's a reason people are mesmerized by them...the film casts the same spell. Jul 23, 2019 | Full Review…
Some may find the sentiment contrived and the cuteness cloying. But this is something we've never seen before: a movie uniquely devoted to babies. There's a reason people are mesmerized by them...the film casts the same spell.
Brian D. Johnson
Words like "miracle" and "precious" are used so often in reference to infants, they've grown rather empty. With simplicity and grace, Babies fills them up again. Oct 4, 2018 | Full Review…
Words like "miracle" and "precious" are used so often in reference to infants, they've grown rather empty. With simplicity and grace, Babies fills them up again.
Megan Basham
Unfortunately, Balmes never takes his pop anthropology project beyond the observational stage. Babies doesn't offer much in the way of insightful revelations, and the scenes become repetitive. Aug 8, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, Balmes never takes his pop anthropology project beyond the observational stage. Babies doesn't offer much in the way of insightful revelations, and the scenes become repetitive.
Brandy McDonnell
See if you can stop smiling as you exit the theater. There is so much more to Babies than cuteness, but that charm goes a long way. Jun 29, 2017 | Full Review…
See if you can stop smiling as you exit the theater. There is so much more to Babies than cuteness, but that charm goes a long way.
Sr. Rose Pacatte
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