
A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.... (Full plot summary below)
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A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.
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| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenObservant and funny and thoughtful too, powered exclusively by vérité footage without a word of narration, Babies is William Blake’s Infant Joy brought to rich cinematic life. |
| New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottIt's a lovely bit of blood-pressure-lowering cinema that never betrays its simple conceit. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyBabies will capture your eye -- and, probably, your fancy. |
| Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonThis documentary on one of the most universal, photographed, analyzed, opined upon and slavered over human experiences manages to astound. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallIt's the nicest Mother's Day gift available at the movies this weekend. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAs the movie goes on, these fleshy little beings turn into…well, people. And that's something to see. But Babies, without falsifying its subject, could have used a more soul-stirring sense of showbiz -- that is, a riper display of infantile special effects. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisI don’t think the movie is looking for answers; it isn’t asking any questions. But by its very nature, this is both an experiment in ontology (do babies know they’re babies?) and existentialism (are they thinking about who to be?). |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe contrast in lifestyles is striking, and I suppose one of the themes that Babies is trying to get at is that despite chasm-wide economic and societal differences, infants are really all the same. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubThe similarity between the children is the most striking part of the movie. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayA mesmerizing and weirdly manipulative experience. |