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50
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Critic Score

69
Critics' score based on 38 reviews.
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Disgusting movie. Especially the Japanese part. Honestly, is it necessary to show that kind of ignorance and stupidity in a movie.?

March 27, 2011
HVIRI

Excellent film. Three stores are interconnected - not by interaction but by association - so they serve as three separate stories. Well done and entertaining.

June 30, 2010
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Critic Reviews

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.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

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.Full Review

Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter

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.Full Review

Todd McCarthy
Variety

Babel may be the most ambitious movie of the year, tackling towering communication barriers, global politics and cultural divides in a structurally complex and fascinating narrative.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today

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

James Berardinelli
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