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A well-mounted production is undermined by a muddled, absurd storyline of questionable taste.
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This is a grown-up, intelligent, beautiful film. Rejoice. Dec 26, 2017 | Full Review…
This is a grown-up, intelligent, beautiful film. Rejoice.
Will Self
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 | Full Review…
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.
David Ansen
Unusually austere and ambiguous. Nov 11, 2004
Unusually austere and ambiguous.
David Edelstein
By trying to turn Birth into a thriller, the filmmakers undermine its intriguing issues. Nov 2, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
By trying to turn Birth into a thriller, the filmmakers undermine its intriguing issues.
James Berardinelli
A dismayingly skillful exercise in high-style creepiness. Nov 2, 2004
A dismayingly skillful exercise in high-style creepiness.
David Denby
I didn't find it spellbinding at all. Nov 1, 2004
I didn't find it spellbinding at all.
Richard Roeper
Ten years after premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2004, Jonathan Glazer's Birth remains as powerfully mysterious as ever. Mar 31, 2014 | Full Review…
Ten years after premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2004, Jonathan Glazer's Birth remains as powerfully mysterious as ever.
Ryan Lattanzio
What begins as a promising and provocative melodrama gradually turns into na conventional and frustrating movie, aimless and pretentious. Apr 23, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review…
What begins as a promising and provocative melodrama gradually turns into na conventional and frustrating movie, aimless and pretentious.
Emanuel Levy
What were they thinking? Dec 22, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
What were they thinking?
Nell Minow
Kidman has another turkey for her resume. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
Kidman has another turkey for her resume.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Manhattan-based supernatural thriller done in the tone of "Rosemary's Baby" starts out strong but loses all steam in its third act. Apr 18, 2009 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Manhattan-based supernatural thriller done in the tone of "Rosemary's Baby" starts out strong but loses all steam in its third act.
Cole Smithey
The film fudges the conceit by pulling you back and forth between disbelief and acceptance, planting compelling doubts but contradicting them. Sep 16, 2005 | Full Review…
The film fudges the conceit by pulling you back and forth between disbelief and acceptance, planting compelling doubts but contradicting them.
Jeremy C. Fox
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It bored me really and i didnt finish it, it just was slow and boring
Anna is a widow who is about to re-marry when a young boy claims to be her husband reincarnated. Some inappropriate scenes.
The premise of this mystery drama is actually rather interesting: a jogger dies, a baby is born. Ten years later that baby is confronting the jogger's widow who is about to get married again, claiming to be her dead husband. Kidman, proofing once again that she is looking good in any hairdo, gives a great performance. So does Anne Heche, whose character plays a big part in the mystery. The intentionally dismal look and hypnotic soundtrack make for an unsettling atmosphere. Sadly, the movie is falling to pieces when the solution is presented way too early and has nothing to add after that. It's merely a drama about grieve in the end, and not a really good one either.
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