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Be Our Father Figure, Harris
Babygirl’s best scene is when its upstart intern reaches for the brown liquor.
Babygirl is at its best when it lets its characters’ desires just flow — like in the “Father Figure” scene, which communicates everything we need to know about how CEO Romy Mathis (Kidman) and her intern Samuel (Dickinson) are approaching this affair. (For Dickinson newbies, he played a heavily inked hacker in A Murder at the End of the World, during which he coaxes Emma Corrin into singing along with Annie Lennox’s “No More ‘I Love You’s.’” It’s pretty cute.) And, the pièce de résistance on his right ribcage: A winged cherub in a black balaclava mask wielding a machine gun, a fantastically fuck-it image that seems to fly as he twirls, body rolls, shimmies, and dips.
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