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Babel 
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| Starring: |
Brad Pitt, Cate
Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kôji Yakusho,
Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Said Tarchani,
Boubker Ait El Caid, Elle Fanning, Nathan
Gamble, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Abdelkader
Bara, Mustapha Rachidi, Driss Roukhe, Clifton
Collins, Robert Esquivel, Michael Peña, Yuko
Murata, Satoshi Nikaido |
| Directed by: |
Alejandro González Iñárritu
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| Produced by: |
Steve Golin, Jon Kilik |
| Written by: |
Guillermo Arriaga |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| MPAA rating: |
R |
| Runtime: |
142 minutes |
| Release date: |
Nov 10, 2006 |
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An accident connects four
groups of people on three 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.
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| Critics
Reviews |
Average
Grade: |
B |
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Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...it sweeps
you along in a tide of cinematic energy and
high-voltage drama."
more... |
A- |
E! Online
Luke Y. Thompson |
"...a towering
bore."
more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"Measured in
anything other than biblical cubits, the sum
of Babel's many parts turns out to be
a picture that suggests Americans ought to
stay home and treat their nannies better."
more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"In striving to
recreate the chaotic din of a God-cursed
global humanity, it succeeds only in making
noise."
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C- |
Hollywood
Reporter
Ray Bennett |
"...an
emotionally shattering drama..."
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A |
New York
Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...towering
dramatic achievement..."
more... |
A |
New York
Times
A. O. Scott |
"The sheer
sensory exuberance of the film at once
subverts the fatalism of its story and lends
it whatever credibility it has."
more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"It's a
compelling tale, one that delineates how
small mistakes and lapses in judgment can
have tragic consequences."
more... |
A- |
Rolling
Stone
Peter Travers |
"Pitt, raw and
emotionally bruised, gives his most mature
and moving performance to date."
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A |
San
Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...an
experiment that fizzles."
more... |
C |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...only a
moderate success."
more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...may be the
most ambitious movie of the year..."
more... |
A- |
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