Birth, a film by Jonathan Glazer

Nicole Kidman as Anna (Photo courtesy of Fine Line Features)

“You’re getting to be quite a connoisseur of bad Nicole Kidman movies,” a friend of mine informed me a while ago, somewhere amidst the string of five in a row terrible films in which Kidman starred and I mercilessly panned, either in the pages of Vigilance or on the web. And looking back at The Hours, The Human Stain, Cold Mountain, Dogville, and The Stepford Wives—each one of them a ham-fisted piece of crap—there seemed to be no reason to expect that Kidman could any longer choose a script worth filming. After her seminal, inspired work in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, she’s disappointed time and again.