Babel

4.50
    Babel
    2006

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Brad PittRichard Jones
    • Cate BlanchettSusan Jones
    • Gael García BernalSantiago
    • Koji YakushoYasujiro Wataya
    • Adriana BarrazaAmelia
    • Rinko KikuchiChieko
    • Said TarchaniAhmed
    • Boubker Ait El CaidYussef
    • Elle FanningDebbie Jones
    • Nathan GambleMike Jones

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Rolling Stone

      In the year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film, Inarritu invites us to get past the babble of modern civilization and start listening to each other.
    • 90

      Variety

      Effectively building dread and emotional tension as tragic incidents triggered by human stupidity and carelessness steadily multiply, this film, like "21 Grams" in particular, employs a deterministically grim mindset in the cause of its philosophical aspirations, but is gripping nearly all the way.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The filmmakers succeed brilliantly in weaving these stories together, taking time to explore depth of character and relationships. The suspense builds throughout as everyone involved becomes lost in a place they don't understand with people they don't know if they can trust.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      Its complex (yet not mystifying) storytelling, forceful character development, and superb cinematography make this a candidate for one of 2006's best offerings.
    • 80

      Time

      Babel is a movie that leaves you feeling limp and wrung out, but mysteriously moved by its vivid human encounters with the hot, tightly wired, chancy and coincidental world, ever capable of terrorizing us when we least expect it.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      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.
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      In their last collaboration, "21 Grams," the director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga did syntactical acrobatics to disguise what a dreary and exploitive little soap opera they’d made. Their new movie, Babel, is more mysterious and less coherent.
    • 50

      The New Yorker

      Babel is an infuriatingly well-made disaster.

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