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- 2022
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 3 h 9 m
- 2022
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 3 h 9 m
Summary 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 d...
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
Written By: Damien Chazelle
- 2022
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 3 h 9 m
- 2022
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 3 h 9 m
Babylon
61
7.0
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Summary 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 d...
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
Written By: Damien Chazelle
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 63 Critic Reviews
61
54% Positive
34 Reviews
34 Reviews
38% Mixed
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
8% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 63 Critic Reviews
61
54% Positive
34 Reviews
34 Reviews
38% Mixed
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
8% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Babylon might be messy, but original film making doesn't come much better than this.
Babylon slowly builds up its wackadoo cartoon version of Hollywood to tear it down at its foundation.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 263 User Ratings
7.0
67% Positive
177 Ratings
177 Ratings
18% Mixed
47 Ratings
47 Ratings
15% Negative
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 263 User Ratings
7.0
67% Positive
177 Ratings
177 Ratings
18% Mixed
47 Ratings
47 Ratings
15% Negative
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
I entered the theater with high expectations and left convinced that I had witnessed the birth of a masterpiece.This film is a love letter to cinema. Every person who has ever shed tears due to sadness or felt happiness due to the joy of a protagonist knows what this film wants to convey from beginning to end. The history of these three characters in the film industry is brilliant and the perfect bearer of a message that is felt and will last in my memory forever.Damien Chazelle and Babylon make 3 hours into a pleasant and enjoyable 30 minutes, and the same cannot be said for many movies. This is the definition of a perfect movie.
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This is an amazing abstract development of the depravity of 1920’s hollywood where actors and actresses struggle to adapt to the change from silent films to sound. THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!! People sadly do not understand this movie like others do. That’s why I describe it as an ABSTRACT film.
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I can’t say I truly enjoyed watching Babylon, or that I’d ever want to see it again, but I definitely haven’t stopped thinking about it since screening it earlier this month.
A great score, a talented ensemble, and expert cinematography—all are undeniable here. And yet there are narrative elements of Babylon that feel hollow from the very beginning and only get more so as Chazelle tries to inject some manipulative lessons into the final scenes.
The disappointment is that the movie wields so much and achieves so relatively little.
Boogie had a dramatic throughline, and something genuinely unsettling to say about the strange soul-bargaining of fame. Chazelle often steers his characters toward tragedy or anguish, without ever quite rooting his inscrutable thesis in anything real.
It’s a hyped-up cocaine conversation of a movie, throwing out lots of ideas and images and mammoth set pieces without ever amounting to anything.
Right off the bat, Babylon was a Masterpiece, it's the grandest and wildest movie you will ever watch not only in terms of a look, but the performance, the cast, the music, the sound, the score, the costume design, the cinematography, and the story, they got everything in Babylon right and perfect, every performance in this movie are phenomenal and perfect but really the stood out is this three cast that i'm gonna mention and their deservely winning performance nomination, Brad Pitt for best supporting actor, Diego Calva for best actor, and the best performance in the film Margot Robbie for best actress, Babylon deserve every nomination possible, Babylon is 3 hours plus long, and i have never so invested, never so untired and even wanted more for a 3 freakin' hours plus movie before, Babylon is a celebration, there is no way you wouldn't get invested already in the first 10 minutes of the film, the writing of this film was so good, the phasing of the film was fantastic, it's a love story that never overreact, it still more focus on the love (and hate) letter to not only old Hollywood but the whole generation of Cinema or film whatever you wanna called it, Babylon is a true cinematic Masterpiece, it's one of the best films i've seen, it was just so perfect, and my man Damien Chazelle needs to make these type of movie more, he need to make Whiplash, La La Land, and Babylon more and less of a First Man type of movie, i love Babylon!
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Starts out very strong, gets lost in the middle, and becomes something else in the last act. Let me put it this way: I loved ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, and I thought BABYLON is an okay movie. But I can't really explain why Tarantino's meandering 60s flick is better than Chazelle's meandering 20s flick in my opinion. Maybe it's the pretentious finale, I don't know. I'd say, give it a watch if you're interested in an ambitious vanity project (HEAVEN'S GATE anyone?) that's way too long and messy, but manages to entertain you through most of its runtime.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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An excellent film, a splendid declaration of love for cinema... Of course, adding another actor of caliber to Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie would have been a perfect idea instead of the albeit very good Diego Calva...
Let's say, a real star, like Leonardo di Caprio.. .. And then, instead of the pompous collage-finale, there could have been a good senseless action scene, like one of those movies made by Tarant.. OH WAIT...
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures,
C2 Motion Picture Group,
Marc Platt Productions,
Material Pictures,
Organism Pictures,
Wild Chickens Productions
Release Date Dec 23, 2022
Duration 3 h 9 m
Rating R
Tagline Always make a scene.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 1 Win & 12 Nominations
