Babylon
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From Damien Chazelle, BABYLON is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Cast
- Brad Pitt
- Margot Robbie
- Diego Calva
- Jean Smart
- Jovan Adepo
- Li Jun Li
- P.J. Byrne
- Lukas Haas
- Olivia Hamilton
- Tobey Maguire
Letterboxd User Reviews
- Nov 30, 2022
Is this a love letter to cinema or a suicide note? (My review)
Katie WalshDec 23, 2022Tobey Maguire will haunt me in my dreams for the foreseeable future.
George CarmiJan 4, 2023had such a great time. felt like i got cornered at a party by the lamest film major but was just drunk enough after the first 20 minutes to hear him out. tom cruise and brad pitt made two VERY different movies this year where they acknowledge their own legacy in the…
Karsten - Dec 24, 2022
Yeah it’s insane. All of it works or some of it works or none of it works, I don’t really know. But I had fun
FramesofnickDec 21, 2022shortest three hours of my entire life. sobbing uncontrollably knowing movies don’t get better than this. hold the ones you love and watch movies always and forever
#1 gizmo fanNov 16, 2022on the one hand, Hollywood is a fetid pit of exploitation on the other hand, it gave us Avatar
David Sims - Dec 7, 2022
Do you think Damien Chazelle tucks in his trumpet at night?
jonathan fujiiDec 22, 2022damien chazelle checking off every possible bodily fluid he could show in this film
james💫Dec 22, 2022i’m sorry but this is like if baz luhrmann actually made a good movie
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Very long, but didn’t drag too much. One of the best films I’ve seen in my life. Love letter to film, hate letter to Hollywood.
8.5/10 Fun from start to finish. The soundtrack was fantastic. Every actor and actress delivered amazing performances. Loved the style and the storyline. Really a great movie all around. Highly recommend, only taking some points off because it was a little too long in my opinion
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8.4/10 I gotta say the hate for the movie is a little too much. Great acting, set pieces, writing, and the soundtrack was superb. The runtime was a little too long, had some straight up gross humor I didn’t like, and movie bounces around some but overall a really good movie.
If you can get past the nudity, elephant poop, Cleo from H2O peeing, projectile vomit, and the 3h 9m runtime, it’s a pretty good film. The scene where Robbie makes her first “talkie”, the beautiful love note to film ending, and Calva’s standout performance make it worth watching.
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Lost for words. Could’ve been an all time great if executed properly. Once Tobby Maguire pulled up it went downhill. Best I can do is 8.
Movie makers making a movie about movie making and movies. I really underestimated the powerhouses that are Damien Chazelle and Margot Robbie, and even Brad Pitt. The whole cast and crew for that matter because the size of this was insane in both entertainment and quality. Any Tarantino fan would…
Atom User Reviews
Even though this is a 3 hour plus movie, it's so good that it doesn't feel like it. All the main and supporting characters steal every scene they are in.
Tiring and underwhelming with some excellent performances and good writing, but doesn't know what it wants to be or say.
Metacritic
I’ll admit that I found much of Babylon mesmerizing, even when (maybe especially when) I also found it naive, bludgeoning and obtuse. Chazelle’s demolition of the Dream Factory may be rather too taken with its own naughtiness, but coming from a filmmaker who until now has been precociously well-behaved, it can be a welcome blast of impudence and sometimes just a blast.
At its best, Chazelle's film is a cinematic marvel, evidence enough that movies are magical, as it sweeps us into the beautiful, terrible world we recognise as Hollywood even now.
Babylon is often pure mayhem, but it’s the beauty of life and film itself underneath that makes this one of the best movies about movies this year, and one of the best films of 2022.