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  • 2023
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m

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 neighborhood ...

Directed By: Bess Wohl

Written By: Bess Wohl

  • 2023
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2023
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 33 m

Baby Ruby

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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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 neighborhood ...

Directed By: Bess Wohl

Written By: Bess Wohl

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
6 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
20% Negative
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20% Mixed
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80
Jan 30, 2023
The film is a mad whirl of influencer phoniness, paranoia, imposter syndrome and parenting nightmares.
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

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5.7
29% Positive
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5.7
29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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0% Negative
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75
Jan 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.
By Bob Strauss FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
38
Feb 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.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 30, 2023
The film’s depiction of the fear and uncertainty of motherhood gives in to monotony.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Point Productions, Saks Picture Company
Release Date Feb 3, 2023
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website http://www.magnetreleasing.com/babyruby/
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