Movie Review Bodies Bodies Bodies

Bodies Bodies Bodies 

Directed by Halina Reijn

Written by Sarah Delappe 

Starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Pete Davidson

Release Date August 5th, 2022

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a mixed bag. At once a horror whodunnit and a snappy send up of Gen-z, Bodies Bodies Bodies has a tricky tone to pull off and I don’t think it quite threaded the needle. The movie wants laughs and scares in equal measure and while it earns both, the whole is never as good as the parts. In the end Bodies Bodies Bodies is quite effective but not as effective as it needs to be. 

Bodies Bodies Bodies stars Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova as a young couple traveling to a hurricane party. Stenberg is Sophie and Bakalova is Bee, and what Bee doesn’t know is that they have not actually been invited to this party. This is despite the fact that the party is being put on by Sophie’s oldest and closest friend, David (Pete Davidson). Sophie has dropped out of the lives of her closest friends while she was in rehab and while getting clean, she met Bee and fell in love.

Find my full length review at Geeeks.Media, linked here. 

Movie Review Babygirl

Babygirl 

Directed by Halina Reijn 

Written by Halina Reijn

Starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas 

Release Date December 25th, 2024 

Published December 5th, 2024 

Babygirl is a movie about breaking through the surface to get to something real, a real emotion, a real reaction, a true desire. Beneath the glossy veneer of the life of a multi-millionaire CEO with a handsome playwright husband and two exceptionally well adjusted daughters, is a roiling cauldron of sexual frustration and the twisted, perverse desire to risk it all for the thrill of the elicit and forbidden. The forbidden in this case is a 20 something intern named Samuel with six pack abs and a manner precisely used to push past the boundaries of propriety and polite adherence to expectations. 

Nicole Kidman stars in Babygirl as Romy, the high powered CEO of a tech company that is putting many people out of work. Romy justifies this by claiming that her company is relieving people of menial work but this is just her way of justifying profiting from other people’s pain. The grease in the wheels of capitalism is the blood of those at the bottom of the economic ladder but we all politely try and pretend that’s not true. All of us, except for Samuel (Harris Dickinson) who, on his first day as an intern at Romy’s company, bluntly asks the CEO how she feels about putting so many people out of work.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.