Babel Reviews

Babel Review
by Tim Voon
'Babel' is a reference to an ancient city mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible. It was a place where all men spoke with a common tongue and because of this unity, they endeavored to build a tower that would reach the heavens and challenge God...more

Babel Review
by Mark R. Leeper
CAPSULE: This is a moving but very downbeat film. Four inter-related tragic stories are told in parallel. In that sense it is much like last year's CRASH. But the stories do not add up to much other than to say that...more

Babel Review
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Ba*bel [bey-buhl] [bab-buhl] -noun 1. (usually lowercase ) a confused mixture of sounds or voices; 2. (usually lowercase ) a scene of noise and confusion; 3. babel, confusion; mixture. Or, biblically- speaking (Genesis 11:1-11), 4. an ancient...more

Babel Review
by Steve Rhodes
BABEL is an excessively ambitious film which tells four interlaced stories set on no less than four countries and three continents. BABEL's director Alejandro González Iñárritu rose to prominence on the basis of his wildly overrated AMORES PERROS....more