Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-conspirator, Guillermo Arriaga, are engaged in an epic, three-film argument over the distinctions between “random” and ...

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and scripter Guillermo Arriaga’s previous collaborations, Amores Perros and 21 Grams, are composed in triads: three seemingly unrelated tales that are gradually ...

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is a meditation on the barriers to communication in a world divided by class, culture, and language. Although his vision is dark, Iñárritu never surrenders to ...

s Chieko, Babel's heartbreaking deaf-mute teenager, Rinko Kikuchi's work is nothing short of revelatory. Her character moves through the streets of Tokyo, trapped in a world of silence, and Kikuchi ...

There hasn't been a lot of discussion about Babel yet, but this is a film that provides one of the most fulfilling theatrical experiences in a while. Visionary filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu ...

Many movie fans overseas got their first look at Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi as the troubled deaf-mute girl Chieko in the 2006 film "Babel," for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar ...

Rinko Kikuchi’s breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn’t know the ...

Rinku Kikuchi is most likely the least familiar actress in the Oscar race this year. A virtual unknown, the Japanese thesp doesn’t speak one line of dialogue during her performance as a deaf-mute ...

Many movie fans overseas got their first look at Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi as the troubled deaf-mute girl Chieko in the 2006 film "Babel," for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar ...