What is the iRankMovies score for Babel?

Name: Babel
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Genre: drama
Released: 2006
Duration: 2 h 23 min
Rating: 7.5

Babel has an iRankMovies score of 71.5/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Babel (2006)

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Release:2006

Runtime:2h 23m

Country:France

Director:Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Language:English

Genre

Drama

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Keywords

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iRank72

Babel rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 325K votes

Rotten Tomatoes68%

Metacritic69%

TMDb7.2/10· 4K votes

With 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 69/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Babel

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Cast of Babel

Brad Pitt
as Richard Jones
Rinko Kikuchi
as Chieko
Adriana Barraza
as Amelia
Cate Blanchett
as Susan Jones
Satoshi Nikaido
as Kenji Mamiya
Said Tarchani
as Ahmed
Boubker Ait El Caid
as Yussef
Gael García Bernal
as Santiago
Nathan Gamble
as Mike Jones
Elle Fanning
as Debbie Jones
Mohamed Akhzam
as Anwar
Yuko Murata
as Mitsu

Babel facts

Budget: $25M
Box office: $135.3M

Our take on Babel

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 2006 drama builds a single tragedy into a web of interconnected lives across continents. When misfortune strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, the shock ripples outward, drawing four different families into an interlocking story where one event reshapes them all. Iñárritu favours mosaic storytelling, cross-cutting between strands to explore miscommunication, borders and the fragile distances between people. It suits viewers who appreciate ambitious, emotionally weighty ensemble cinema and don't mind a fractured, non-linear structure that gradually clicks into place. If you're drawn to serious, globe-spanning human drama that asks how small moments cascade into consequence, this is a demanding but rewarding watch.

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