Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Babygirl, A24 ’s erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn that stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. It hit theaters December 20.

While there have been debates about whether or not the film fully delivered (there are some Twitter truthers who argue it wasn't that kinky), the general public can all agree on one thing: the film's "Father Figure" scene was pure cinema.

The movie, starring Nicole Kidman, operates at the level of the female gaze. Its inversion of erotic thriller tropes leads to fascinating but, at times, tepid results.

Justin Kuritzkes (‘Challengers’ and ‘Queer’), Payal Kapadia (‘All We Imagine as Light’), Mangold (‘A Complete Unknown’), Reijn (‘Babygirl’) and Jason Reitman (‘Saturday Night’).

Brazilian historical drama I’m Still Here starring Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres debuted to an excellent $25,082 per-screen average in a low-grossing Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend at the US box office.

A24's Babygirl features Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Sophie Wilde, and Antonio Banderas in key roles. Read on

Instead, these moments in “Anora,” “Babygirl,” “Challengers” and more involve complex power dynamics that speak volumes about their characters.

A depiction of a sadomasochistic relationship between a CEO and an intern, Halina Reijn's film keeps its distance and misses the meeting of the characters.

"Babygirl"—A24's steamy thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson—appears to be coming soon to digital streaming. When and where can you watch it at home?

Nicole Kidman was grateful to join her erotic thriller Babygirl in the early stages and help shape what it became. The Australian actress read one of the first drafts of the script for Dutch director Halina Reijn's thriller and immediately agreed to play Romy Mathis,

Nicole Kidman is back in the spotlight for her powerful and provocative role in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. While she didn’t take home the Golden Globe for the role (she was nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama),

"Cementing her status as Hollywood's boldest actress, Nicole Kidman bares herself every which way – physically, emotionally and artistically – in 'Babygirl'", Halina Reijn's erotic thriller about a kinky workplace affair, said Tom Shone in The Sunday Times.