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  Review by Jake Isgar 2

  Kidman vs. Kid Man

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  Review by sprizzle ★★★★★ 20

  The next Stanley Kubrick? I don't think we'll ever get another Kubrick...But I do think I'm okay with having a Jonathan Glazer.

  Glazer is an extremely visual director. In that regard, he is very similar to Kubrick. Every sequence is more focused on the frame than what is going on inside of it. Without context, every shot can be pulled out and it's art. The story is forced to work around the frame and the movie pulls much of it's tension from the space created by the director. To say he's brilliant may be jumping the gun...But I've seen two films so far from Glazer that have blown me away.

  Birth is closer to a Lars Von Trier pic than…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★½ 2

  "You're hurting me."

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 20

  Nicole Kidman seriously has to be one of the very best actresses of our time. Was I the only person that, as soon as this movie ended, immediately went to look up who had passed away on their birthday!? Haha. Subtleties such as the choice of never really showing a clear image of deceased Sean's face in the opening scene are what really set this strange mystery apart from many others. I would write a longer review, but it's past 4AM and I'm very exhausted. One thing is for certain though: excitement level for Under the Skin is officially through the roof.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 2

  Glazer does the ghostly, queasy problematic age gap dynamic of The Innocents by way of the subjective, claustrophobic, wealthy New York dreamscapes of Eyes Wide Shut and Rosemary's Baby. Nicole even steals the haircut! Sometimes it can backfire but it's always fun to see such a ridiculous premise—in this case, a grieving woman's dead husband ostensibly reincarnated in the body of a young boy—realized so emotionally seriously; around the time she was trying to figure out the logistics of eloping with a 10-year-old to the astonished faces of her family, I was losing my mind. Not sure how crazy I was about the eventual literal revelations and explanations near the end but it has an impeccable icy mood throughout (what…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★★ 5

  one of the most miraculous films i’ve ever seen

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 2

  bored af might show up to some rich widows house to tell her im her reincarnated husband and see what happens

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  Review by Jim Cummings ★★★★★ 6

  Absolutely incredible.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★ 4

  This whole movie is the "you're at the club with your girl and this guy grabs her ass, wyd?" meme but the guy is a ten-year-old boy.

  Respect to Jonathan Glazer and Danny Huston though for perfectly recreating the scene in Barry Lyndon where he melts down at a music recital and tries to beat the shit out of his stepson for publicly owning him, but in the context of the Upper East Side.

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  Review by manilazic ★★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  This film gets more heartbreaking on every watch. 

  
  Glazer reaches towards the impossible to explore the very real feelings of grief and love. The improbable premise itself is enough to make your head spin: what if your dead husband came back, full of love for you? What if this love didn’t have to die?

  As much as reincarnation is a fantasy, the fact that Anna’s grieving process could be interrupted by its possibility is fully credible. “I couldn’t tell him to go away” she admits to her new partner Joseph. Being in love means wanting someone to never leave you, and grieving means being devastated that someone has gone forever. If love is still alive, then perhaps the person never…

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  Review by nick ★★★★ 3

  Birth takes on the theme of death and grief in the most out-of-the-box, at times controversial manner. As a European-style psychological slowburn, Birth excels at its deadpan yet effective buildup of tensions and suspense, to portray a woman's twisty encounter with a boy who claims to be the reincarnation of her dead husband.

  With most of the sequences set inside an apartment building, accompanied by perfectly ominous, heartbeat-like sound effects or classical scores, Birth succeeds in creating a cold, almost claustrophobic world of despair and heartbreak, where the personal ordeals of each character is maximized to the extremity. The acting caliber is also astonishingly high, between Nicole Kidman's heartbreaking frailty and Cameron Bright's scarily mature delivery as a 10-year-old.

  As…

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½ 1

  Desplat’s score is one for the ages, second only to Bacall’s “I never liked Sean.” that it inspired as much laughter as it did while never undercutting the brutality of its sadness, kind of an insane miracle. Danny Huston & co. "me and my friends would have beat that kid with hammers," etc. Kidman.... the bravest woman alive. there's a lot of immaculate craft here, and a lot that convinces me the connective tissue between Glazer's three films is the power of love!! ain't that grand. Heche </3