Babygirl (2024)

The high powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) of a company puts everything on the line, her family and her career, when she enters into a kinky affair with an intern (Harris Dickinson) where he controls her and she can live out her sexual fantasies. Written and directed by Halina Reijn (INSTINCT). Every so often a mediocre movie comes along that is redeemed by a superb performance (Faye Dunaway in MOMMIE DEAREST for example) and that's the situation here. Nicole Kidman gives a sensational performance but the movie is junk. It's a LAST TANGO IN PARIS wannabe with a feminist twist. Who knew sex on film could be such a bore! Part of the problem is the casting of Dickinson. We need to see what attracts her to this boy, so much so that she puts everything on the line. Dickinson gives a decent enough performance but his charisma is zero and so Kidman's risking everything makes no sense. Critics who trashed FIFTY SHADES OF GREY wet their panties over this one. Go figure! With Antonio Banderas and Sophie Wilde (quite good).