We’re kicking off 2025 with one of the last movies to get released in 2024! 

Babygirl stars Nicole Kidman as a high-powered CEO who begins an affair with one of her interns. 

I got to see this one ahead of its release with a pretty big crowd and it was one of the more memorable theatre experiences of the year. Does that mean the movie rocked my world though? Let’s discuss!

My Thoughts

I only ever watched the first 50 Shades of Grey film (with lots of alcohol), and Babygirl felt like 50 Shades of Grey but good. 

The first thing to talk about is the lead performance from Nicole Kidman. She’s fantastic here. Her character is complex and she’s completely believable throughout the movie, no matter what she’s doing. 

Antonio Banderas plays her husband and he’s good in the movie. He doesn’t have a ton to do here, but there’s one moment where he gets to shine and he makes the most of it. 

The other key role was the intern, played by Harris Dickinson. I’ve seen a lot of mixed feelings on his performance, with opinions ranging from it being an example of perfect casting or a complete miscasting. I actually found myself more in the middle. I thought he was fine, but I don’t feel like he was the only one that could’ve played the role. He definitely had chemistry with Kidman, which is key, and I thought he matched the tone of the movie well. He brought out some chuckles from the audience, but was also deadly serious when he was supposed to be. 

On that note, this has got to be the horniest theatrical film ever to be released on Christmas. There were definitely some excitable sounds coming from various audience members during our screening which was very amusing for Sergio and me. It was definitely clear that lots of the ladies in the audience were really enjoying themselves with this one!

Outside of the performances, I also really liked the soundtrack and the score, but pretty much everything else was just fine. I can’t say that anything stuck out to me as bad, though, either. 

Halina Reijn is the director, writer, and producer of Babygirl. She also directed Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, a movie that I loved, but the things I like most about these two movies have less to do with the direction. It’s definitely the performances that carry the movie and the dialogue is fun, but the narrative overall doesn’t do much new or all that interesting. 

I hope as Reijn gets even more experience that she develops a stronger identity as a filmmaker to stand out more, but these are two very solid movies, especially early in her career. 

Verdict

I think the ladies will especially like this movie based on the reactions I heard in the theatres, but this isn’t something only they can enjoy. There’s some solid laughs in this one to be had and I think you can do much worse on a date night. 

Check out Babygirl in theatres now!