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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Babys is intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring, a rare combination these days, though hardly unusual for writer/director John Sayles. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Sayles handles this material with gentle delicacy, as if aware that the issues are too fraught to be approached with simple messages. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    If Casa de los Babys isn't necessarily a fully realized film, it's still a deeply felt glimpse into dizzyingly complex political and psychological forces that shape the most crucial decisions of a woman's life. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Some of the pieces in its jigsaw puzzle are too fragmentary, and there's a sense of racing against time to fill in the blanks. Yet the movie's even-handed portrayal of two cultures uneasily transacting the most personal business resonates with truth. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Marcia Gay Harden is an angry vulgarian who steals shampoo off the maids' carts and bribes a lawyer to get her baby. Sayles may not have planned it this way, but Harden makes crassness as powerful as any maternal instinct. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    There is often not enough space for all these personalities to truly play out. They tend to become types rather than people, representatives of classes and points of view more than individual human beings. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A creeping equanimity is taking over the work of John Sayles, a quality that in personal terms might be wise and coolheaded but in terms of drama is absolute death. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    The film feels more like a thesis than vivid drama. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Casa feels like a miss. The digging into each of these women's lives stays shallow and seldom uncovers anything unexpected. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | David Rooney

    An entirely schematic treatise on maternity and conflicting cultures. A subject perhaps far more suited to documentary treatment, this numbingly earnest effort will be a laborious delivery for IFC. Read full review

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