Babylon Movie Information

Your Rating

• This movie was an epic failure
• This movie was horrible
• This movie was not good
• This movie was average
• This movie was okay
• This movie was good
• This movie was great
• This movie was incredible

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 8649

Average Rating: 2.6/4

# of Ratings: 14

Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2022

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 03/21/2023

Language: English

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Damien Chazelle

Actors: Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jean Smart, Diego Calva, Li Jun Li, Max Minghella

Plot: Hedonism and ambition go hand-in-hand as we follow the rise and fall and fates of several characters during the glamourous excess of the days of early Hollywood. -- Chris Kavan

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.

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.

Matthew Brady
Movie God

Cinema!

Matthew Brady - wrote on 02/15/2023

Ruth Adler: “You cry on cue for every take, how do you do it?”

Nellie LaRoy: “I just think of home.”

An interesting contrast between LaLa Land and this movie in terms of its portrayal of Hollywood; LaLa Land takes a magical and whimsical approach, while Babylon is more honest and chaotic.

I have seen film critics call this “a love letter to cinema”, but I don’t know what movie they watched because there was no love here. This letter that critics bring up is the letter that exposes how cruel, gross, and disturbing Hollywood can be. We see elephant diarrhea shitting all over the camera, someone getting a golden shower, a rat getting eaten alive, deaths on film sets that get brushed aside, suicides, careers failing, a toxic work environment, and an Eye Wide …