Babel (2006)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 191 Fresh: 130 Rotten:61 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus:
In Babel, there are no villains, only victims of fate and circumstance. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu weaves four of their woeful stories into this mature and multidimensional film.
Runtime: 2 hrs 23 mins 1 sec
Theatrical Release: Oct 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $34,237,104
Synopsis: BABEL is the crowning achievement in the trilogy from the unstoppable creative pairing of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, which also includes AMORES PERROS (2000) and 21 GRAMS (2003). Building upon its predecessors' method of weaving together... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mahima Chaudhry, Shilpa Shetty
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga Jordan
Producer: Steve Golin, Jon Kilik, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Corrine Golden Weber
Composer: Gustavo Santaolalla
Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga Jordan
Producer: Steve Golin, Jon Kilik, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Corrine Golden Weber
Composer: Gustavo Santaolalla
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Babel...belongs to an unfortunately proliferating genre that might be called the higher kitsch.
06/01/08
...language acts more as a means to distance and isolate us than aid in our understanding of one another.
02/28/08
Babel directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is one of the most compelling films to date.
07/22/07
an affecting examination of disconnected lives in an interconnected world.
07/02/07
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06/29/07
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With some irony, the byzantine Babel is the one that babbles, speaking without actually saying much of anything.
06/21/07
Smart, interesting to look at, and courageous, this is one of the best films of 2006.
05/02/07
There is some hope, in Iñárritu's world, each of the characters may have a family and love, but this is shown to be, at best, a diversion against the real world, which is a much more intolerable, incomprehensive place.
03/27/07
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03/03/07
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Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga cap off the trilogy of films that began with "Amores Perros" and "21 Grams" with a rich and engrossing drama.
02/19/07
A better title for this film would have been "Murphy's Law," as Inarritu has a relentless grip on the banality of its tenets.
02/09/07
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest sprawling, dispersed art-film blockbuster prompts a question: Does he just not know how to tell a story?
02/03/07
Rubbish so pretentious it would make the folks behind Crash begin to blush.
01/31/07
Babel es más que eso, es contradicción y antítesis, es la obra cumbre y gloriosa de un visionario en un retrato triste y dramático de nuestro mundo.
01/27/07
An impressive, beautifully acted work with a tragic sense of life. The formality of its structure controls a seething anger.
01/27/07
Well acted and handsomely photographed, but still extraordinarily overpraised and overblown, a middlebrow piece of near-nonsense: the kind of self-conscious arthouse cinema that is custom-tailored and machine-tooled for the dinner-party demographic.
01/20/07
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