# Babies asks the question this couple never asked

> Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen play a happy LA couple who suddenly realize they never actually decided about kids.
- Title: Babies asks the question this couple never asked | Shortify
- Summary: Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen play a happy LA couple who suddenly realize they never actually decided about kids. Some of the biggest life choices get made by…
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- Source: The Hollywood Reporter — https://hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/babies-review-anna-kendrick-seth-rogen-lauren-miller-rogen-1236699421
- Author: Michael Rechtshaffen
- Published: 2026-09-13T18:06:05+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: movies, film review, tiff, parenthood, comedy
## To be or not to be
Lauren Miller Rogen's Babies is built on one thorny question: should this couple have a kid? The whole film sits inside the weighing.

> To be or not to be … parents. That is the thorny question raised in Lauren Miller Rogen's Babies
## Seventeen years, no decision
Annie and Aaron are happy, supportive, and settled in Los Angeles. After 17 years together they start wondering if a bouncing bundle of something is missing.
## Friends planted the seed
It may have started with parents in their circle saying the kind thing people always say. The compliment lands like an assignment.

> You guys would be such great parents
## Never officially signed off
Kids were never a fight or a plan, just a box the couple skipped. Suddenly they are addressing a topic they had quietly left open for years.
## Kendrick is the engine
Anna Kendrick plays Annie as a comic dynamo, with Seth Rogen alongside her as Aaron. The comedy comes from two people who like each other arguing with themselves.
## An astute charmer
The TIFF premiere reads as a sparkling portrait of a marriage under a friendly interrogation, funny without treating the choice as a joke.

> an astute charmer
## Key takeaway

Some of the biggest life choices get made by drifting, and Babies is about the moment a couple stops drifting and asks out loud.