Babies(Bébés)

Time Out by

Babies is barely more insightful than your average Flickr photo gallery or home movie clip: it’s just infant porn for prospective parents.

New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott

It's a lovely bit of blood-pressure-lowering cinema that never betrays its simple conceit.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

As the movie goes on, these fleshy little beings turn into…well, people. And that's something to see. But Babies, without falsifying its subject, could have used a more soul-stirring sense of showbiz -- that is, a riper display of infantile special effects.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

A celebration of the gloriously mundane.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Just babies. Wonderful.

The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

As a portrait of children who are wanted and loved, it's intimate and often delightful.

Tampa Bay Times by Steve Persall

It's the nicest Mother's Day gift available at the movies this weekend.