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Babygirl Might Just Be The Year’s Hottest Movie
Though what’s great about this sexy Nicole Kidman-Harris Dickinson drama is how surprising it can be.
What first lights her up is, amusingly, the way he takes command of an aggressive dog who’s gotten away from her owner — his ease, his confidence, and the way he says “good girl.” Kidman’s been on a run of playing overachieving matrons lately, and what’s gratifying about her role in this film is that she starts from that place, then banks so wildly in another direction that she seems perpetually shocked by herself. Samuel is old enough to work in a bar on the side while being young enough to get an internship at Romy’s warehouse automation company ( Babydoll approaches its setting with the endearing vagueness of someone who’s read a single Wikipedia entry on New York corporate culture). The generational difference between Babygirl ’s lovers isn’t just an act of provocation — Romy’s a product of her era, having had to learn to be one of the boys, and then to figure out what it means to be a leader who’s a woman, and written in all the accrued scar tissue on her heart from those experiences is a certainty that what she wants is shameful and degrading.
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