Review of Babylon (2022) by Jordan Raup for The Film Stage — 16 Dec 2022
Babylon is a brash, bombastic, unwieldy comic opera conveyed with enough bad taste and directorial panache that it—refreshingly—registers as a refutation of the well-mannered prestige drama to which these kinds of nostalgic odes often conform.
And while there’s a touch of wistfulness in regards to the communal power of big-screen cinema, the film is more defined by an acidic unsentimentality, both when it comes to its characters and the precarious world they inhabit.
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This review of Babylon (2022) was written by Jordan Raup and published by The Film Stage on 16 Dec 2022.
Babylon has generally received positive reviews.
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