Review of Babylon (2022) by Barry Hertz for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) — 19 Dec 2022
The 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.
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This review of Babylon (2022) was written by Barry Hertz and published by The Globe and Mail (Toronto) on 19 Dec 2022.
Babylon has generally received positive reviews.
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