Together with Nosferatu, Halina Reijn‘s erotic thriller Babygirl is offering textbook counter-programming amid a sea of family-friendly movies that debuted over the vacations. Whereas it hasn’t been as main a success as director Robert Eggers‘ horror movie, it has efficiently attracted a demographic that was believed to have been misplaced. After half-a-month in launch, Babygirl is approaching a brand new world field workplace milestone, having emerged as certainly one of A24’s greatest hits of final yr. The film stars Nicole Kidman within the lead function of a strong CEO who has an affair with a a lot youthful intern, performed by Harris Dickinson.

With over $20 million domestically, Babygirl is now A24’s fourth-biggest hit of 2024, behind Civil Struggle ($68 million), Heretic ($27 million), and We Reside in Time ($24 million). In all probability, it should overtake each Heretic and We Reside In Time to turn into the indie studio’s second-biggest hit of 2024. This weekend, its third, Babygirl reported one of the best maintain of any movie within the high 10 (31%). The film truly witnessed only a 1% drop in weekend two. Globally, Babygirl has grossed $28 million thus far, which places it on observe to cross the $30 million milestone this week. It is doing this whereas taking part in in beneath 2,000 home theaters.

Babygirl premiered finally yr’s Venice Movie Pageant alongside one other A24 movie, The Brutalist. Kidman gained the Volpi Cup for Greatest Actress. The film opened to optimistic evaluations, and is at present sitting at a “contemporary” 77% approval ranking on the aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes. Nonetheless, the movie’s viewers rating is at odds with the type of resilience that it has been displaying on the field workplace. In line with Rotten Tomatoes, crowds have rated it a “rotten” 48%. In his evaluation, Collider’s Martin Tsai described the movie as “past noxious.”

‘Babygirl’s Divisiveness Is Attracting Audiences to Theaters

Whereas erotic thrillers had been extraordinarily well-liked (and profitable) within the Nineties, the style has been largely relegated to streaming lately. Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas starred in Adrian Lyne‘s Prime Video film Deep Water in 2022, whereas Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich starred in Netflix’s Honest Play, directed by Chloe Domont. Babygirl has been simply as divisive as these films, however that comes with the territory. You’ll be able to watch the movie in theaters, and keep tuned to Collider for extra updates.