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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 10 Nov 2006

From the past to the present to the future, from savagery to civilization to a kind of cybernetic autism. Babel does what a movie can do…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 10 Nov 2006

There's a lot to chew over in Babel. But because it's overstuffed, it also means that there's a lot not worth swallowing…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 09 Nov 2006

The film's sympathy for all of its characters is in itself the answer, or at least the beginning of one, to the questions it raises…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Nov 2006

One of the most challenging and saddest movies of the year -- and also one of the most memorable…

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By Phoebe Flowers (256) for South Florida Sun-Sentinel (746) on 09 Nov 2006

Gripping, patient and utterly enchanting, it is a marked growth for Iñárritu and Arriaga, who have taken a precarious conceit and transformed…

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By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Nov 2006

Fascinating, sprawling drama ...an ambitious, engrossing piece of work that builds on the promise shown in Innaritu's first two features…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 09 Nov 2006

If last year's best-picture Oscar winner, Crash, argued, Can't we all just get along? Babel counters, Let's stop traveling and talking to each other…

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By John Thomason (91) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 09 Nov 2006

At two and a half hours, it's never boring but has trouble connecting the disparate characters into a cohesive whole…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Nov 2006

No character is on hand to neatly tie up the film's themes (like how we all Crash into each other), and there is an overall feeling of empathy…

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By Mark Palermo (504) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 06 Nov 2006

Through it all is the motif of children at prey in a social order that's ready to destroy them…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 05 Nov 2006

An unqualified triumph from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. World class filmmaking of the highest order…

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By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Film Threat (5,156) on 05 Nov 2006

The film is technically superior, and its look and the strength of its performances (Blanchett, Barraza, and Kikuchi especially) carry it above…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Nov 2006

Like its scriptural model, an impressive structure, but one that doesn't reach the intended emotional heights…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 04 Nov 2006

This is one of those movies that would work better at home, where you could pause the tape when you need to take a break or fast forward when…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 04 Nov 2006

Babel is a ziggurat of brilliant pieces built on sand…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 04 Nov 2006

Thought-provoking long after its haunting final frame, Babel is a weighty and complex spellbinder…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 03 Nov 2006

Babel is supposed to be a cry of humanist anguish that echoes -- in four languages -- around the world…

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By Tom Keogh (466) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 03 Nov 2006

The film is something to see. But despite the dynamism of all those individual moments, Babel looks like an empty edifice…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 03 Nov 2006

An extension and expansion of 21 Grams in every way, and this time proves too much of a mystical thing…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 03 Nov 2006

[Inarritu's] eloquence of delivery is remarkable…

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