"Birth" is a creepy, well-acted examination of how grief can give itself over to irrationality. It pushes its share of buttons - and then pushes a few more.
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02/16/05
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Reviews for Birth
For a certain kind of moviegoer, Birth will provide allusive ancillary thrills...
01/10/05
Birth is the beigest, most suffocatingly tasteful film I’ve seen since Woody Allen’s Another Woman.
01/04/05
You want to like a movie made with the poise and precision of Birth, but the film feels only partially conceived.
12/16/04
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12/12/04
Managing to be both stilted and bizarre, Birth never achieves life.
12/11/04
[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.
12/05/04
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11/16/04
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11/16/04
Top CriticThe picture isn't scary or convincingly dramatic and is thoroughly devoid of humor or irony.
11/13/04
Mesmerizing.
11/13/04
Unusually austere and ambiguous.
11/11/04
Looks, sounds, and feels like a Carl Theodor Dreyer film.
11/10/04
Hilariously pretentious, it's Nicole Kidman's funniest movie since The Hours and 2004's barmiest motion picture disaster area.
11/08/04
Copious strands of skill are wasted in a futile attempt to capture us in a net that's insupportable. Adult minds should rebel.
11/08/04
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.
11/07/04
effective at creating a desolate, haunting atmosphere, an uncanny visual strategy that sustains the film for much longer than it deserves.
11/07/04
Flashes of brilliance which are ultimately squandered.
11/07/04
There’s a mysterious, hypnotic quality to the atmosphere of the film that grabbed me and wouldn’t let go.
11/06/04
Although slightly exploitative in its provocative skin, Birth is a daring but stylishly sluggish mysterious melodrama that misses its mesmerizing, tawdry mark
11/06/04
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