Babygirl (2024)

The film brilliantly captures the feeling of falling in lust through a feature-length homage to the early rush of attraction and radically charged encounters. It singles out Reijn's empathy for every character and the relief and revelation in Kidman's expressions during sexual discovery without punishment or judgment.

Reijn weaves a complex tapestry of desire, power and humour that avoids genre conventions. Kidman delivers a gutsy, no-holds-barred performance in a fiercely erotic, nuanced and raucously funny exploration of carnal desire.

The film is unabashedly and giddily sexy thanks to committed performances from Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. Reijn crafts a BDSM story full of fumbling uncertainty rather than assured expertise, letting the characters feel their way through desire.

It is the year’s hottest movie, an unabashedly indulgent adventure into self-discovery with giddy deliriousness and startlingly private eroticism. The review singles out Dickinson's magnetic presence and Kidman's shift from overachieving matron to someone shocked by her own desires.

Reijn delivers intelligent, elegant adult filmmaking that handles complex themes of desire, power and consent with nuance, empathy and candour; the strong chemistry between Kidman and Dickinson is singled out as stratospheric.

The critic calls it a thorny pleasure that tests sexual ethics and power dynamics through a hot, consent-focused age-gap affair, with empathy for the protagonist's complexities.

The film is a perverse, juicy erotic thriller about a woman coming to accept her full spectrum of desires without shame or judgment. It singles out the skilled navigation of tricky challenges by the actors, especially Kidman's physical and psychological fearlessness.

Babygirl offers a subversive, sexy depiction of the messy and contradictory reality of female desire, flipping expected power dynamics in a BDSM affair. It is a fantastic, complex portrait that celebrates pure sexual enjoyment without neat feminist explanations.

The film is a deliciously barbed yet wise and hopeful investigation of female sexual desire and power dynamics, succeeding with magnificent performances from Kidman and Dickinson that make the erotic elements fresh and committed.

It is a true comedy of remarriage in spirit that puts the 'screw' in screwball, with honesty as the bedrock of carnal connection. The review singles out the mutual rule-making and embodied performances that synthesize contradictory roles without compartmentalizing them.

Kidman is all raw nerve in a sexy provocation that makes no moral judgments and instead celebrates sex for what it is and can be. The review highlights the kinky, sex-positive S&M dramedy elements centered on debasement and desire.

It is a slick, professional piece of work that gets people talking, arguing and flirting about desire and consent, with strong turns from Kidman and Dickinson, though it stops short of fully exploring psychological extremes.

The erotic drama works better in the bedroom than the boardroom, with excellent chemistry and performances from Kidman and Dickinson, but its larger ideas about workplace sexism and sexual shame do not burn as hot.

The critic praises the film's witty exploration of female desire and subversive avoidance of moral punishment for the protagonist's kinks, highlighting the strong chemistry between leads and Kidman's committed performance.

Reijn’s film about a company executive’s carnal adventure with her intern is expertly done but suspect at its core, despite Kidman’s bold performance. It has useful things to say about inter-office dynamics and sexual desire but delivers them with clipped, perky professionalism and machine-tooled thrills.

The critic praises Kidman's fearless performance in this erotic drama about a CEO's transgressive affair, highlighting its honest take on women's desires in a controlled corporate world.

The film sizzles as a feminist rereading of the erotic thriller, with Kidman and Dickinson delivering brilliant, charged performances that explore desire, consent and generational dynamics without moral judgment. Reijn crafts some of the hottest sex scenes in recent major cinema while satirizing political correctness.

The review praises Kidman’s dedicated and vulnerable performance in this sexually charged story. Reijn creates an extraordinary atmosphere with frank exploration of female desire and power dynamics.

An intelligent erotic exploration where Kidman is in complete control, delivering a vulnerable yet feral performance that highlights the pleasure of relinquishing power on her own terms. The film avoids formulaic traps of past erotic thrillers through its cerebral take on self-expression and fulfillment.

The critic finds it a very smart film uninterested in easy answers, using its central dynamic to explore power and sexual politics with confidence. Kidman and Dickinson deliver standout performances in a funny, entertaining take on thorny issues, despite some pacing problems in the second act.

The critic finds the film a funny, fascinating erotic thriller with sharp, slippery writing that explores power dynamics more cleverly than Fifty Shades of Grey. Kidman and Dickinson deliver terrific, brave performances in a mix of audacious setpieces and provocative moments.

The critic calls the film audacious, sexy and deliciously smart, one of the most welcome recent entries in the erotic thriller canon. It excels at tangling power hierarchies and showing that desire and transgression go hand in hand.

Reijn's film is rewarding because it challenges its subjects and audience with a graphic, aware exploration of unmet needs and power imbalances. It balances strong performances and precise details with occasional hesitation around its sex-positive themes.

The critic finds “Babygirl” a surprisingly genteel and safe take on kink, more commercial dom-com than edgy thriller. Kidman’s performance stands out for its vulnerability and control.

The critic finds the film a noxious and superficial portrait of power struggles in an inappropriate relationship that fails to deliver nuance or humanity, exploiting Nicole Kidman more than expected and lacking the depth of comparable works by Catherine Breillat.

The critic praises Nicole Kidman's fearless and technically skilled performance as a high-powered CEO exploring submissive desires, highlighting strong early scenes depicting sexual incompatibilities in her marriage. However, the film is criticized as ultimately basic and melodramatic, more interested in instruction and reassurance than in genuinely provocative exploration of kinks.