Babygirl

If the idea [of the film] was to underscore desire in older women, well it doesn’t even manage to scratch the surface and is content being facile than a fresh exploration.

Babygirl wants to be challenging and incendiary, and it could’ve been all those things if it had a clearer through-line of what it’s really trying to say.

What I like about this movie is that the woman decides that the kink ain't all that bad, and everyone else just needs to get their mind around it.

There's a lot that is supposed to be going on in this movie... But somehow, it didn't hold for me as either an erotic film or a film that dealt with power dynamics in a substantive way.

In different hands this could have been a great movie: profound, sexy, glamorous, unflinching. Babygirl, sadly, is none of those things.

Not all viewers will be equally ready to invest in the fantasy of Babygirl, but the awkward space between safe distance and all-out commitment is where the movie invites us to spend some time.

Nicole Kidman grabs eyeballs with her ferociously fearless depiction of a woman building herself even as she tears herself down

Even when it avoids some complications with its sexual daringness, I’m grateful for the richness of this as an adult drama directed with a technical efficiency that complicates and reconfigures some of its simpler ideas through formal elements.

It makes cosmic sense that the same stretch of time that produced the grotesque post-election quote “Your body, my choice” would also yield a movie that too often (if inadvertently) encapsulates said message.

What is undeniable is how vital Reijn’s movie is in enforcing a woman’s perspective in all its contradictory, confounding nuances.