An effective thriller precisely because it is true to the way sophisticated people might behave in this situation. Its characters are not movie creatures, gullible, emotional and quickly moved to tears. They're realists, rich, a little jaded.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Without Ms. Kidman's brilliantly nuanced performance, Birth might feel arch, chilly and a little sadistic, but she gives herself so completely to the role that the film becomes both spellbinding and heartbreaking, a delicate chamber piece with the large, troubled heart of an opera.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
What the intelligently spooky Birth does best is disturb us.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Birth presents an intriguing premise about death and the possibility of rebirth in an elegant, melancholy and deliberate fashion.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Birth makes its oddball supernaturalism seem completely, compellingly real.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The best of what's onscreen is a mesmerizing mind-teaser.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Dennis Lim
If Birth succeeds more as a source of visual and aural enthrallment than as supernatural narrative, it's largely because the final third hovers uncomfortably between the mystical and the earthbound.Read Full Review »
A little like the '80s crowd-pleaser "Ghost," but way artier.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
When Kidman slithers into a bathtub with her young ''husband,'' the scene, in its soft-pedaled way, is the definition of exploitation: It appears to have been cooked up for no other purpose than to conjure creepy child-porn overtones.Read Full Review »
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