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Casa de los Babys Review

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

  • 3.0
    55

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 30

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 30

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 67

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

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

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  • 75

    out of 100

    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.

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