Babel (2006) Movie Review

1. Babel | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Decent film. Rethinking the way we live in the global society. Maybe these linking fates are unrealistic and overwhelming, but it's gripping from start to end ...

  • An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

2. What we have here is a failure to communicate movie review (2007)

  • “Babel” weaves stories from Morocco, America, Mexico and Japan, all connected by the thoughtless act of a child, and demonstrates how each culture works against ...

  • “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” — George Bernard Shaw

3. Babel Reviews - Metacritic

  • The story is emotional; the characters are fascinating; the music is gripping and the script is wonderful. The acting is outstanding. How Jennifer Hudson won an ...

  • In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out -- detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple's frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. (Paramount Vantage)

4. Babel Movie Review | Common Sense Media

  • Babel is a thought-provoking drama with an ensemble cast and multiple storylines. It attempts to exemplify the butterfly effect.

  • Diverse, globe-trotting film has explicit nudity, violence. Read Common Sense Media's Babel review, age rating, and parents guide.

5. Babel | Drama films | The Guardian

  • Jan 18, 2007 · It is well acted and handsomely photographed, but still extraordinarily overpraised and overblown, a middlebrow piece of near-nonsense: the kind ...

  • Peter Bradshaw: Less than the sum of its grandiose parts.

6. Babel | Reelviews Movie Reviews

7. Film review: Babel (2006) - Jens Andermann

  • Jan 24, 2024 · A rifle shot by two teenage boys in rural Morocco, in a game turned awry, complicating childcare arrangements in the southern US borderlands.

  • For my my graduate seminar Mundo inmundo: Unworlding, Survivance, and the Cinema, my students and I will be posting weekly short film reviews on IMDB of an eclectic sample of Latin American and Lus…

8. Movie Review – Babel - Fernby Films

  • Oct 7, 2008 · Synopsis: Four disparate groups of people have their lives irrevocably changed when a young boy shoots at a tourist bus in Morocco. When his ...

9. Babel - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Babel is a beautifully depressing film about responsibility, redemption, and ultimately that there are consequences to people's actions.

  • Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets

10. 'Babel' – Film Review and Analysis - The Life and Times of Ben Weinberg

  • Oct 30, 2017 · 'Babel' is a story of human beings living their lives in their own ways within their own cultures but who get caught up in external events ...

  • There’s a famous story from the Book of Genesis in the Bible that is known as the ‘Tower of Babel.’ It’s a mythic story about how human beings were once speaking the same language around the world …

11. Babel (2006) - You Can't Unwatch It

  • May 4, 2017 · I mentioned a ripple effect earlier and I have to say that this film portrays it beautifully. Without having to use title cards, narration or ...

  • Life may not always be exciting but it sure is not loaded with platitudes or easy lessons and for art to work effectively, it has to be challenging as well as inspiring. Babel accomplishes both.

12. Babel (2006) Review | The Movie Universe - WordPress.com

  • Nov 18, 2012 · Rinku Kikuchi as Chieko Wataya, a deaf-mute Japanese schoolgirl, is incredible. This is genuinely one of the best performances I think that I ...

  • Babel is the third offering from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu in his ‘Death’ trilogy, following Amores Perros and 21 Grams. Being a big fan of 21 Grams I was looking forward to …

13. Babel Review - MovieWeb

  • Oct 27, 2006 · If you took away another story line of the film, the two children of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett's characters in Mexico with their nanny, as ...

  • A disappointment for two performances that should have stood out. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett stand out, but only too briefly. Four storylines that interlink only slightly, with one not needed at all.

14. Babel (2006) - Movie Review : Alternate Ending

  • Nov 16, 2006 · Two Morroccan boys take potshots at a tourist bus with their father's new rifle, inadvertently hitting an American woman travelling with her husband.

  • Babel - Movie review by film critic Tim Brayton

15. Everyone is a Stranger to Someone: the film Babel, and the International ...

  • Jul 6, 2007 · For me, Babel is one of the most beautiful and moving films of the last year, of any year. I think that some of the most important and true ...

  • By Daniel Garrett

16. Babel user reviews - Metacritic

  • A great film about people and communication! Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Babel is one of the best films of 2006! Read More. Report.

  • Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

17. Film Review: Babel (2006) - The Fire and the Rose

  • Jun 21, 2007 · Throughout its different stories, Babel is a penetrating examination of our human condition: both marred by miscommunication and the pursuit of ...

  • Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar a...

18. Babel (2006) - Review Flow - Into Film

  • This powerful film explores the topic of causality in which a base realism that leaves the viewer with a lingering contemplation that haunts. Exploring how the ...

  • Tragic tales set in Morocco, Mexico, the US and Japan entwine in this intense drama about a world ever-more-connected, but still culturally divided.

19. Babel (2006) Review | You Can't Unwatch It

  • Aug 24, 2022 · Aug 24 Babel (2006) Review | You Can't Unwatch It. Daniel Smith · Daniel's Reviews, Film Reviews ... Babel (2006) Review | You Can't Unwatch It.

  • A re-upload of one of my earliest videos and one of my best

20. Movie Review: Babel - The Arizona State Press

  • Nov 13, 2006 · Movie Review: Babel ... I don't understand the movie, "Babel." It's confusing. There are so many different languages being spoken, mass confusion ...

  • ROSE: I don't understand the movie, "Babel." It's confusing.

21. “Babel” (2006) - Medium

  • Jan 26, 2023 · Firstly, though still a complicated and complex narrative structure, it is less fractured than previous films and though there are several ...

  • “They look at us like we’re monsters”.

22. Babel (2006) Review - A Compelling Ensemble Drama - CGMagazine

  • Babel follows four loosely interlocking storylines. An American woman (Cate Blanchett) is shot accidentally while on vacation in Morocco with her husband (Brad ...

  • The only thing that keeps Babel from being a decent ensemble drama is the fact that it's not really an ensemble, just a story where everybody has a part to play.

23. Babel (2006) or 'Cultural Diversity, and non-linear narrative'.

  • Apr 7, 2013 · The films are known to be incredibly well written, with the dialogue often containing a lot of dramatic irony in regards to the other stories, ...

  • Babel (2006) is an International Drama Film, from Auteur Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Starring Brad Pitt, Rinko Kikuchi, Cate Blanchett, and Gael Garcia Bernal. It is the third in the ‘Death&…

24. Babel (2006) directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu - Letterboxd

  • Synopsis. If You Want to be Understood... Listen. In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a ...

  • In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.

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