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Plot unknown. Rumored to be set in period Hollywood.
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| The IndependentClarisse LoughreyThe film’s vision of the Twenties may be propelled to the very border of believability, but it’s rarely inauthentic. This is a work of studious imagination. |
| UproxxVince ManciniBabylon is a movie that absolutely shouldn’t work, but objectively does, three hours and nine minutes that didn’t bore me for a single second. Instead, it sails, on the crest of a glorious wave of blood, sweat, tears, tits, shit, vomit, and piss. Damien Chazelle elevates Cinema by dragging it back to the gutter. |
| Film ThreatAlex SavelievWith Babylon, Chazelle laments and condemns; he documents and romanticizes. There’s truth beneath the embellishments. The filmmaker gives this project his all. Luckily, it all works. Bravo. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe film is thrillingly reckless enough to make you genuinely dread what’s coming next. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDon’t mistake his movie’s lack of sentimentality for callousness. Babylon is coarse, hard and wild, but its emotion is undeniable. Babylon is what movie love really looks like. |
| The A.V. ClubTomris LafflyBabylon mostly operates in a structure of set pieces, thoroughly earning its not-a-minute-too-long runtime—a whopping 189 minutes—and it’s packed to the gills with stunning craftsmanship. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerFrenetic as Babylon is, Chazelle himself remains clear-eyed. His view of Hollywood is romantic but not romanticized, a flaws-and-all look back at a party that was bound to end and be completely incapable of handling the crash. But oh, what a swell party it is. |
| We Got This CoveredMartin CarrBabylon might be messy, but original film making doesn't come much better than this. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe kind of full-throated, barrel-chested, more-more-more exercise in gusto and ambition that comes around once a decade, Babylon might either take Chazelle’s impressive career to new heights, or sink it to the bottom of the La Brea Tar Pits. Either way, the filmmaker deserves attention for throwing his entire self into making a delirious, lurid and sprawling concoction whose magnificent reach just about meets its grasp. |
| ConsequenceClint WorthingtonBabylon slowly builds up its wackadoo cartoon version of Hollywood to tear it down at its foundation. |
