Four loosely connected stories of ordinary people across the globe in extraordinary unfortunate circumstances. You have to be prepared for a major feel-bad experience, Babel is quite the downer. On the other hand, the kids do not die in the desert, the arm does not come off, and the girl does not jump from the balcony, so compared to, say, 21 Grams, this is probably a happy end by Alejandro González Iñárritu standards.

8 points