Birth

All right, all right, she may be America’s reigning movie queen, but whom can we petition for a moratorium on magazine covers featuring Ms. Kidman? Still, she and her child co-stars scared the bejesus out of us in The Others, and so we’re looking forward to this film, in which Kidman’s widowed character develops an intense rapport with a ten-year-old who claims to love her, and to be her dead husband reincarnated. Birth looks to be more of a psychological mystery (and a practical one—what’s this woman supposed to do with her new fiancé?), albeit one with a few supernatural shudders. Yes, it’s been branded “controversial,” and yes, it’s directed by Johnathan Glazer, who burst onto the scene with the acclaimed Sexy Beast a few years back.