Baby Ruby
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: February 3, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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6
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2
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJan 30, 2023
The film is a mad whirl of influencer phoniness, paranoia, imposter syndrome and parenting nightmares. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubHattie LindertFeb 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
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayJan 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
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussJan 30, 2023
There’s crafty playfulness to Wohl’s approach, though; dialog can be as killer as Jo’s darkest impulses, and some scenes are drop-dead funny even if they’re about wanting to drop-kick Baby out of your life. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 17, 2023
Baby Ruby is pitched somewhere between domestic melodrama, a tale of a crack-up, and paranoid thriller. Wohl and Merlant keep shifting the ground underneath Jo and the viewer, throwing us off balance. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleFeb 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
50
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 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
40
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanFeb 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
38
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyFeb 3, 2023
Baby Ruby operates at a high-pitched melodrama-horror level, and the constant frenzy becomes exhausting. The film's nerves become so frayed there's almost no feeling left in them; the terror is monotonous and repetitive. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineWes GreeneJan 30, 2023
The film’s depiction of the fear and uncertainty of motherhood gives in to monotony. Read full review
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