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By Alex Zane (472) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 04 Oct 2016

While short on terror this is a brilliantly acted and powerful film about a mother facing her demons…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 04 Oct 2016

For her first feature, Australian actress-turned-filmmaker Jennifer Kent creates a startlingly effective horror movie by combining serious…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Oct 2016

There are legitimate terrors here -- legitimate because, as any bleary-eyed parent will verify, they come from a real and terrible place…

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By Richard Drumm (3) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 04 Oct 2016

It's as likely to thrill more casual horror audiences as it is to satisfy long-time aficionados of the genre…

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By Jonathan Hatfull (125) for SciFiNow (378) on 04 Oct 2016

Rest assured, Jennifer Kent's debut more than lives up to the hype…

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By Lesley Coffin (32) for The Mary Sue (174) on 04 Oct 2016

I can't think of a movie since Rosemary's Baby which acknowledges the unspoken fears of motherhood with such humor, horror, and compassion…

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By Matt Goldberg (248) for Collider (1,032) on 04 Oct 2016

It's an incredibly well made horror film, and Kent is superb at getting under the audience's skin…

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By Don Kaye (124) for Den of Geek (424) on 04 Oct 2016

The Babadook is the best horror movie I've seen in some time, because it works on all those emotional and psychological levels in addition…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 04 Oct 2016

It would be easy to call this a thinking person's horror film, but that would be to deny its many deliciously visceral moments of flesh-crawling…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 04 Oct 2016

Davis gives one of the best performances you will see this, or in any other, year…

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By Jenni Miller (82) for Bust Magazine (182) on 04 Oct 2016

Writer/director Jennifer Kent has crafted a masterfully scary movie that relies on sound design and a claustrophobic atmosphere to build tension…

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By Steve Newall (155) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 04 Oct 2016

Jennifer Kent's debut is an assured chiller that successfully piles on the dread, thanks to great casting and the creepy-as-all-hell character…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 04 Oct 2016

A deftly inventive and psychologically charged horror story that trades on the ways in which the prospect of maternal failure can be just as…

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By Rashid Irani (192) for Hindustan Times (753) on 04 Oct 2016

The Babadook is a worthy addition to the psycho-horror genre…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 04 Oct 2016

Jennifer Kent's feature is beautifully made and cleverly filmed and paced…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Nashville Scene (147) on 04 Oct 2016

What's most terrifying about The Babadook is that Kent grounds a bizarre supernatural premise in very real feelings of anxiety and depression…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 04 Oct 2016

Cheap scares are refreshingly absent…

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By Harry Guerin (318) for RTÉ (Ireland) (721) on 04 Oct 2016

It's brilliantly acted, beautifully shot, has loads of tension and announces newcomer Jennifer Kent as a writer-director of real class and depth…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 04 Oct 2016

The Babadook and his escalating presence in this exacerbated single-parent family are very scary indeed, however metaphorical they may be…

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By Barry Paris (96) for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (258) on 04 Oct 2016

It's an intriguing and welcome change from the hellish Hollywood formulas…

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