Babylon

Movie • 2022

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Roger Ebert

It's a lavish 1920s-period piece about how often the silver screen images that feel like magic are really the product of incredibly hard work, broken dreams, and a lot of luck.

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The New York Times

It’s also a bloated folly, which is in keeping with an industry that has a habit of supersizing itself in times of crisis.

nytimes.com/2022/12/22/movies/babylon-review-damien-chazelle.html

The Guardian

Babylon is a film that’s thinking big, aiming big, acting big – but feeling small, and finally ordering us to care about the celluloid magic.

theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/16/babylon-review-hollywood-brad-pitt-margot-robbie

CNN

Despite a stellar cast and showy moments, the writer-director’s sprawling, messy, three-hour-plus endurance test isn’t ready for its closeup.

cnn.com/2022/12/23/entertainment/babylon-review/index.html

NPR

"Babylon" feels over the top and enormous at three-plus hours... It is a crazily overstuffed love letter to the glories of cinema...

npr.org/2022/12/25/1145471854/movie-review-babylon

Digital Trends

Damien Chazelle's Babylon is a sprawling portrait of late 1920s Hollywood that just so happens to be one of the boldest and best movies you'll see this year.

digitaltrends.com/movies/babylon-review/

IMDb

Damien Chazelle is fully unrestrained in his latest film... a pretty entertaining tale of excess and fame in early years of Hollywood.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Damien Chazelle’s Love Letter to Hollywood, Movies, Filmmaking, & its stars. A beautiful, hilarious, insane, ride through the debauchery of Hollywood & the stunning aspects of making a film.

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