Baby Ruby

Name: Baby Ruby
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: February 3, 2023
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Amber Janea, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Christopher Ryan Grant, Jayne Atkinson, Kit Harington

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Magnet Releasing | Release Date: February 3, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Amber Janea, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Christopher Ryan Grant, Jayne Atkinson, Kit Harington, Lauren Beveridge, Meredith Hagner, Noémie Merlant, Pat Labez, Reed Birney

Summary: Jo is a successful lifestyle entrepreneur who is happily pregnant, awaiting the arrival of her first child. But soon after Jo welcomes baby Ruby home, something starts to feel off—even though she's assured it's all perfectly normal. Is something wrong with her? Is something wrong with Ruby? And why are the seemingly perfect neighborhoodJo is a successful lifestyle entrepreneur who is happily pregnant, awaiting the arrival of her first child. But soon after Jo welcomes baby Ruby home, something starts to feel off—even though she's assured it's all perfectly normal. Is something wrong with her? Is something wrong with Ruby? And why are the seemingly perfect neighborhood moms so desperate to befriend her? As Jo fights to protect herself and her baby, she is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems. At last, she must confront the truth of her own darkness and contend with the ultimate human sacrifice: The one mothers make for their children.… Expand

Director: Bess Wohl

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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Bill Goodykoontz

Jan 30, 2023

The film is a mad whirl of influencer phoniness, paranoia, imposter syndrome and parenting nightmares. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Jan 31, 2023

Baby Ruby makes a valuable contribution to the emerging cinematic literature on the unspoken realities of women’s lived experience — with style, disarming honesty, and a steady and intelligent hand. Read full review

Hattie Lindert

Feb 1, 2023

Despite some unevenness, Baby Ruby is a fervently uncomfortable and aesthetically compelling depiction of new motherhood, an unsettling horror exploration buoyed by strange imagery and a no-holds-barred lead performance from Noémie Merlant. Read full review

Robert Abele

Feb 2, 2023

In its empathy-driven terror and ghoulish wit — including the Chekhov’s-gun rule hilariously applied to the placenta — “Baby Ruby” won’t be for everyone, although it only ever feels steeped in the honesty of experience, which, according to the press materials, was partly Wohl’s own. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 2, 2023

Evocative and appropriately aggravating as Baby Ruby is in its portrayal of mental breakdown following traumatic childbirth, however, its parlaying of this condition into full-blown genre tensions and terrors yields mixed rewards. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Feb 2, 2023

As moody and messy as its eponym, Baby Ruby aspires to demonstrate how postpartum psychosis can feel like a horror movie. It just fails to make the condition feel like a particularly convincing or cohesive horror movie. Read full review

Wes Greene

Jan 30, 2023

The film’s depiction of the fear and uncertainty of motherhood gives in to monotony. Read full review

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MarvelousMom

Mar 31, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really liked it. Never knew if it was in her head or actually happening. Kit and Noemie were great together. Solid chemistry.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Feb 7, 2023

As a man I will never be able to weigh in on what motherhood entails, and I say that regardless of what the filmmaker's clearest intention was, which in my opinion is horror and unease, but this also means that from my perspective she goes overboard with it and turns an obviously visceralAs a man I will never be able to weigh in on what motherhood entails, and I say that regardless of what the filmmaker's clearest intention was, which in my opinion is horror and unease, but this also means that from my perspective she goes overboard with it and turns an obviously visceral experience into crude episodes with many hollow scares that exclude the more authentic parts of the experience, and that if they had been blended in a more efficient way we'd be talking about a better movie.… Expand

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