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Rating of
2.5/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 04/03/2023
Should have called this Babyl-long - right? While it has a pretty killer cast and an even better soundtrack, I think Damien Chazelle thinks this is twice as smart as he thinks it is and only half as much entertaining as it should be. The opening orgy/party scene is crazy but it can't keep up that energy and eventually just gets crushed by its own ambition. It's good - but three hours good? A soft recommend.
Rating of
1.5/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 01/10/2023
An ambitious but inevitably ruinous and self-indulgent portrait of a transitional time in Hollywood devoid of the traditional glamour, "Babylon" is a one-note collection of sequences each less interesting than the one that preceded it.