Sorry, Baby
A24 | Release Date: June 27, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
90
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
35
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesManohla DargisDec 2, 2025
In its intimacy and naked truth-telling, Sorry, Baby is the kind of independent movie that can seem like a gift. Read full review
100
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyAug 22, 2025
Sorry, Baby is funny in that confrontational way where your body moves to laugh, but you feel a little guilty for letting it out. That’s life, though. Mining misfortune for a punchline is its own survival skill. And Victor doesn’t chase after subjectivity. Read full review
100
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeAug 21, 2025
One good reason we all have to remain upright is this clever, original, warm cinematic balm. Read full review
100
Time OutHanna FlintAug 11, 2025
Sorry, Baby is a captivating comedy-drama that avoids the reductive binary of hero or villain. Instead, Victor articulates the flaws of humanity, of people, but also the hope we can find in each other and ourselves. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 17, 2025
The extraordinary tact and compassion with which Victor dramatizes Agnes’s assault and its aftermath allows us to see this story for what it truly is – a diary of personal reclamation. Read full review
100
The Seattle TimesChase HutchinsonJul 13, 2025
This is a dynamic, delightful film and the introduction of an exciting, uncompromising new voice. Read full review
100
Original-CinKim HughesJul 1, 2025
Sorry, Baby, the feature debut of American writer-director Eva Victor, who also stars, is a clear announcement of an original new talent able to create highly inventive visuals with a limited budget. It is also a terrific — and sad and funny and contemplative — testimony about how trauma profoundly stains people’s lives, with far-reaching and unpredictable outcomes. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonJul 1, 2025
There are no grandiose moments here, only little ones that, cobbled together, create a moving and profound experience. Read full review
100
IGNCarlos AguilarJun 27, 2025
An extraordinary first feature and one of the best films of 2025 so far, Sorry, Baby pulls off astounding feats of storytelling. Read full review
100
Rolling StoneDavid FearJun 27, 2025
Sorry, Baby is a movie with a trauma at its center, but it’s not a trauma drama. It’s about living with such things and still going on with your life. And the manner in which Victor presents this narrative, with such verve and confidence and tenderness and pitch-black humor, defies easy description. It’s simply an amazing display of someone knowing how to get their voice and vision across. Read full review
100
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloJun 27, 2025
Victor’s offbeat film may not resonate with everyone, but their approach to this story and its heavy topic is impressive. It feels refreshing to see characters discuss this taboo topic without making it the defining focus of their lives. Read full review
100
The New YorkerJustin ChangFeb 13, 2025
If Sorry, Baby has a thesis of its own, it’s a fluid, liberating, non-deterministic one: simply put, pain and healing assume a range of unique forms, and the tales we tell about them should follow suit. Read full review
100
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJan 29, 2025
Sorry, Baby is funny, sad, thoughtful, and specific, a keenly observed portrait of a woman blown off course by a traumatic incident. Read full review
91
The Film StageJordan RaupJan 31, 2025
A directorial debut of unfiltered frankness in both its tragedy and comedy, Sorry, Baby is a singular feat of storytelling. Read full review
91
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodJan 30, 2025
The most remarkable aspect of Victor’s accomplishment with Sorry, Baby isn’t her wry sense of humor and deft observations about the inherent awkwardness of human social interactions (although it consistently pops). Instead, it’s how she emphasizes the seriousness of the events while staying true to Agnes’ unique personality. Read full review
91
IndieWireKate ErblandJan 29, 2025
While Victor’s film might be rooted specifically in Agnes’ story and the bad thing at its center, in its specificity, there’s still tremendous room for wider recognition and and revelation. Read full review
90
Screen RantRachel LaBonteJun 26, 2025
Sorry, Baby is the kind of movie that will linger and stick with you. It is far more than a story about trauma; it's also about friendship and growing up, concepts that will feel deeply relatable to anyone. Read full review
90
Screen DailyTim GriersonJan 29, 2025
Delicately segueing from deadpan humour to delicate poignancy, Sorry, Baby is guided by the filmmaker’s graceful lead performance, which captures the guilt, anger and sadness of a woman who once seemingly had a bright future — until, suddenly, everything changed. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJul 10, 2025
Shot on location in Northeastern Massachusetts, chilliness hangs in the air of every frame, but Sorry, Baby – a uniquely special thing – is suffused with warmth. Read full review
88
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJul 1, 2025
Remarkably deft for a feature debut—in terms of construction, tone management, and performance—Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby defies definition. Read full review
88
The Associated PressJake CoyleJun 25, 2025
In this remarkably fully formed debut, the moments that matter are the funny and tender ones that persist amid crueler experiences. Read full review
88
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 30, 2025
A breakout (produced by Barry Jenkins) that heralds Victor as an idiosyncratic and exciting new American artist. Read full review
87
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJun 24, 2025
As sobering as the film gets, it remains, as a work of art and expression of Victor’s thoughtful voice, a real joy. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerJun 24, 2025
Its fragmented literary structure and Victor’s captivating lead turn cohere theme, form, and content, melding the elliptical episodes into a canny representation of memory. Read full review
80
The TimesTom ShoneAug 30, 2025
Sorry, Baby is of a different order of achievement. Walking a tonal tightrope between comedy and tragedy with an exquisite balance that recalls Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain of last year, the film manages to address a difficult, dark subject with a blunt candour that is also slyly funny. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongAug 19, 2025
It’s the banality of enduring a sexual assault that Victor captures so well in her film; how the trauma lingers long in the body, even when you keep insisting to everyone (including yourself) that you’re fine. Read full review
80
EmpireMiriam BalanescuAug 18, 2025
Less a black comedy than an indispensable reinvention of the so-called trauma plot, this grounded post-MeToo story is navigated with a light sprinkling of humour and the utmost grace. Read full review
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeFeb 5, 2025
Sorry, Baby is a fantastic debut that has announced Victor as one of today's most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers. Read full review
80
The GuardianAdrian HortonJan 30, 2025
Sharply written, smartly structured and well-acted, with a star-making turn from Victor herself, the 93-minute black comedy is not only nimble and consistently funny, but one of the best, most honest renderings of life after sexual assault that I’ve seen. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 29, 2025
If Sorry, Baby works, it’s because Victor strikes such a tricky tone: Her debut is warm and compassionate, advancing a conversation for which we’re still trying to find the words. Read full review
80
TheWrapChase HutchinsonJan 29, 2025
It’s a film that almost entirely takes place in a handful of locations, but it feels vast in scope as the first-time filmmaker taps into deep existential questions about how you carry on after experiencing cruelty that nobody seems to care about. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschJan 29, 2025
Whatever the movie lacks in surprise or sophistication, it makes up for in sly comic verve and a soulfulness that sticks with you. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayJul 10, 2025
Tough, tender and observational, “Sorry, Baby” suggests that Victor’s promising career has been suitably launched. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 27, 2025
This is a sort-of comedy about personal trauma, a delicate line to walk—and Victor mostly pulls it off. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesJun 27, 2025
If Sorry, Baby isn’t exactly an assured debut, it nonetheless has a sincere purpose, thoughtfully expressed. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJun 30, 2025
It’s a film about language in ways that are promising but more often exasperating. Read full review
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