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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 16 Dec 2022

The style might cause whiplash, but it’s worth it for the thrilling momentum Chazelle brings to his revisionist filmdom fantasia…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 16 Dec 2022

I can’t say I truly enjoyed watching Babylon, or that I’d ever want to see it again, but I definitely haven’t stopped thinking about…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Dec 2022

Babylon is a brash, bombastic, unwieldy comic opera conveyed with enough bad taste and directorial panache that it—refreshingly—registers…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 16 Dec 2022

The movie is a good 40 minutes too long and momentum ceases to build a while before it finally ends…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 16 Dec 2022

It reminds us the movies have been dying for more than 100 years, and then — through its heart-bursting, endearingly galaxy-brained prayer…

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By Jeff Ewing (14) for Slashfilm (971) on 16 Dec 2022

One can't help but note the irony of a film about the pivot from the silent era to the talkies having such a loud, booming start but ending…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 16 Dec 2022

Running over three hours, and swamped with sex, drugs and over-the-top set pieces, this swaggering drama seems infused with the impetuous energy…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 16 Dec 2022

Even with a great turn from Brad Pitt, an impressive showing by newcomer Diego Calva and a bunch of entertaining cameos, the madcap comedy-drama…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 16 Dec 2022

It would be too dismissive to call Babylon—Damien Chazelle’s incessantly bravura period piece set during Hollywood’s transition to the…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 16 Dec 2022

It’s not the best movie you’ll see this year, but it’s the most movie by a long shot…

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By Beth Webb (40) for Empire (3,446) on 16 Dec 2022

A daring, formally audacious yet messy ode to cinema from one of the most enterprising filmmakers working today…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 16 Dec 2022

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

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 16 Dec 2022

Chazelle seems so enamored with his simulacrum of this forgotten world that he loses sight of the people in it…

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By Matt Donato (975) for IGN (1,013) on 16 Dec 2022

It's a heartbreaking tragedy, dreamer's comedy, and saucy stumble through double-edged success stories, but most of all…

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By Hannah Strong (63) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 16 Dec 2022

Chazelle swings for the fences, but Babylon feels like the worst kind of jazz: a loose freestyle comprised of beautiful moments punctuated…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 16 Dec 2022

Boogie had a dramatic throughline, and something genuinely unsettling to say about the strange soul-bargaining of fame…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 16 Dec 2022

Babylon is unfocussed and overeager, continuously distracted by the burst of a new idea…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Dec 2022

Propelled by Justin Hurwitz’s unrelenting wall-of-sound score, it’s often electrifying, to be sure, and certainly impressive in terms of…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Dec 2022

If nothing else, Babylon is a giant swing, a three-plus hour orgy (sometimes literally) of sex, drugs, and cinema, a respected young artist…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 16 Dec 2022

Babylon isn’t a film made with love, or even with any degree of exactitude; it pretends to be a movie about “loving movies,” but more…

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