Babygirl review: Unabashedly, giddily sexy – with a tremendous Nicole Kidman
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn, also behind 2022’s amusingly nihilistic slasher Bodies Bodies Bodies, has made a BDSM film rife with fumbling uncertainty. Yet it’s no less sexy, unabashedly and giddily so, thanks in great part to its committed leads, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. Committed: Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in ‘Babygirl’ Dickinson, then, is an ideal onscreen partner in that pursuit. When he’s dancing, shirtless, to George Michael’s “Father Figure”, one eye is on the spectacle of his body, the other left to frantically decipher meaning from his odd litter of tattoos.