Review of Babylon (2022) by David Rooney for The Hollywood Reporter — 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 sheer scale. How often do we get to see hundreds of non-digital extras in anything these days? But even when Chazelle takes a breather from the debauchery and gets his principals on a studio backlot or tries accessing them in more intimate moments, it all seems like one big, noisy, grotesque nostalgia cartoon.
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This review of Babylon (2022) was written by David Rooney and published by The Hollywood Reporter on 16 Dec 2022.
Babylon has generally received positive reviews.
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