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- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Chazelle’s film operates in a single gear, stuffed with a lot of action but without much to say.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: A meandering plot that has a literal elephant in the room, unmemorable to memorably bad performances and a nightmarish length damn Babylon.
- Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt’s characters burn the candle at both ends in Damien Chazelle’s rollicking and ridiculous epic cautionary tale, Babylon.
- David “DC” Bolling @ Film Yap
- Excerpt: Babylon is three hours of debauchery and sheer ambition in what I and many will remember as Damien Chazelle’s craziest film. It’s an overwhelming experience to take in where not everything makes it perfect, but what an out-of-control wild odyssey of a love letter to Hollywood that’ll stay with you.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: It is an epic of decadence devolving into degradation, if a flawed one, bursting with the affection Chazelle so obviously has for the process of filmmaking that can sometimes be fatal.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Damien Chazelle stuffs a limited series worth of material into a wildly uneven yet undeniably entertaining 188 minutes detailing the depravity, ingenuity, talent and sheer luck that defined the early days of a surprisingly diverse Hollywood.
- [New] | Mark Leeper @ Mark R. Leeper
- Excerpt: BABYLON is about the late days of silent film and the early days of sound film, full of excess, orgiastic parties, deaths, foul language, animal cruelty, and general chaos. For fans of early film, and those who enjoy lavish visual spectacles, this is a must-see, but it can’t be recommended for a general audience.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Robbie, Pitt, Calva, and Depo help Babylon go from a wild, raucous comedy to a shattering tale of show business’s dark side.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Damien Chazelle wishes he could hold Baz Luhrmann’s jock when it comes to depicting cinematic tales of debaucherous excess.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I have to give Chazelle credit because he goes for broke and shows little room for regret. Unfortunately, no matter how electric those first couple hours may prove, the third (yes, full third hour) can’t help but drag.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Damien Chazelle had a dream to fuse Singin’ in the Rain and Eyes Wide Shut, and, for our sins, that’s what he’s given us.
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