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Babylon

Babylon

2022
Drama
3h 9m
Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical & fictional characters (imdb.com).

Directed by:

Damien Chazelle

Screenwriter:

Damien Chazelle

Starring:

Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, Flea, Brad Pitt, Eric Roberts, Lukas Haas, P.J. Byrne, Margot Robbie, Li Jun Li, Rory Scovel, Jovan Adepo, Diego Calva

Genre:

Drama

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, Spanish, French, Cantonese, Italian, Hungarian
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Babylon

2022
Drama
3h 9m
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mentaculusMentaculus
Rated 18 Dec 2022
65
41st
I found myself slightly aghast to have been enjoying the film, in all its bombast and indulgence and scat - a clear homage to and justifiably feral Singin’ in the Rain. And then THE ENDING. THE ENDING MADE ME PHYSICALLY UPSET and not for what you’re probably thinking without seeing it. The last 30 minutes is one of the greatest faceplant blueball unironically conceited displays of cinematic vampirism I’ve ever seen. The flight was fine but its landing felt like the Hindenburg.
Rated 18 Dec 2022
natebarriosnatebarrios
Rated 24 Dec 2022
65
43rd
feel like this movie is an act of kamikaze. like, this movie doesn't care if you like it, so long as it gets you to like other movies. like, I think any reaction to this movie is valid. Chazelle both desperately cares about the future of the medium and is ready for there to be no future. just a big "throw everything into the pot and mix vigorously" type of deal.
Rated 24 Dec 2022
corbadCorbad
Rated 11 Jan 2023
50
15th
I wasn’t asking, at the three hour mark after watching a man eat a live rat, what could make this movie worse, but I got the answer anyway in an actual clip from James Cameron’s Avatar playing during the film’s emotional climax. Nearly meritless (Calva and Robbie give decent turns in characterless roles) and certainly pointless, this spray of elephant’s diarrhea should have been left at the bottom of the hill.
Rated 11 Jan 2023
hawkinsHawkins
Rated 01 Jan 2023
81
72nd
Hollywood navel-gazing at its own fading magic hour + a loose Talkies/Babel allegory. More than anything, Chazelle's films stress the Faustian bargains that creatives make in the name of art, here interrogating the unseen sacrifices that power the dream factory for 2 1/2 hours before (sardonically?) reassuring us that it's all worth it in the end because come on, how great are Terminator 2 and The Matrix? Aren't movies magical?
Rated 01 Jan 2023
sakujoSakujo
Rated 31 Jan 2023
55
8th
The ending really makes you regret spending 3+ hours on this movie.
Rated 31 Jan 2023
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 10 Mar 2023
95
96th
I love Singin' in the Rain but I'd love Singin' in the Rain if Gene Kelly said fuck.
Rated 10 Mar 2023
schnofelschnofel
Rated 31 Jan 2023
13
2nd
It's kind of touching that Chazelle tries to be one of the greatest directors of all time, which, of course, he isn't. And that dichotomy is consistently the problem with this tiring, loud, and disgusting freak-out.
Rated 31 Jan 2023
doyler29doyler29
Rated 28 Dec 2022
60
23rd
There's absolutely nothing in this film that really lands the idea that movies are magic, so stealing other people's magical images to end your vomit and shitfest is of really questionable taste.
Rated 28 Dec 2022
jlfmJLFM
Rated 28 Dec 2022
81
85th
Find someone who loves you as much as Damien Chazelle loves trumpet bells.
Rated 28 Dec 2022
jpfergusonJPFerguson
Rated 08 Jan 2024
70
75th
I watched this because I’m always suspicious when a film is almost universally rejected by the public for no obvious reason. And I was right; what Chazelle is trying to achieve here is ambitious, nothing short of reverse engineering ‘Singin’ in the Rain’. It’s a loud and messy film, with so much thrown at you as the viewer that somethings are sure to stick if you roll with the punches (while other things will completely miss the mark). Rating may increase with further viewings.
Rated 08 Jan 2024
mirelurkMirelurk
Rated 11 Sep 2023
75
64th
Was in love with this movie but it really fumbles the bag in the last act, especially the ending which goes for that kind of swirling cacophony build up thing but biffs it completely with some poor choices. There was no way they thought this movie would work at this budget though, surely? It seems like it was destined for box office failure but I'm glad it exists.
Rated 11 Sep 2023
gnalkhereGnalkhere
Rated 14 Jun 2023
69
39th
For a bulk of the film this felt like being inside the MGM logo, and I was obsessed with that logo when I was a kid. I'd rent out movies from the local library just to rewind the tape over and over again on the MGM logo and all of its variants, and this film felt like entering through behind that frame that the coveted lion takes up, the frame consisting of golden celluloid. Ars Gratia Artis.
Rated 14 Jun 2023
jacobclark12jacobclark12
Rated 28 Dec 2022
89
85th
Babylon is deliberately messy and chaotic to make a point: Hollywood makes us dream big dreams and then smashes them to smithereens...but then brings us right back in again by reminding us of those same old dreams. If La La Land is the aspirational, idealistic image of Hollywood, this is the reality behind that flawed image. [Full review]
Rated 28 Dec 2022
zarkonZarkon
Rated 23 Dec 2022
80
53rd
It's an ambitious, well-crafted film. Like pieces of music, Chazelle offers the viewer a number of anxiety-inducing scenes where the tension keeps building until it reaches a crescendo. But ultimately, Babylon is a rehash of Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, and other such Hollywood parables. I found its blatant call-back to Singin' in the Rain offensive, frankly.
Rated 23 Dec 2022
caocaocaocao
Rated 28 Feb 2024
76
88th
It's overlong and doesn't quite land the plane, but by that time I was so invested in the ride that it didn't really matter. A rare instance where sentiment is derived from ego, debauchary and cruel whimsy and yet still works. Atleast it does if you believe in movie magic.
Rated 28 Feb 2024
kenmeistersKenMeisters
Rated 26 Dec 2023
77
77th
While the movie as a whole doesn't quite work the way it wants to, there are several scenes that are just spectacular.
Rated 26 Dec 2023
jschlanskyJSchlansky
Rated 15 Aug 2023
78
72nd
All the pissing and shitting and puking was really not my tempo, but the non-bodily-fluid humor worked for me quite well. The structure makes it feel a bit closer to a series of comedy sketches than a 3-hour epic, but there is certainly plenty of epic-scale filmmaking going on too, and the runtime is earned more than most of the 3ish hr movies coming out lately. Self-indulgent, most definitely, but I had a fun time. I can't believe Birdemic: Shock and Terror made it into the end montage
Rated 15 Aug 2023
p_u_l_pP u l p
Rated 29 Apr 2023
43
31st
Damien Chazelle's drunk sexting to Cinema
Rated 29 Apr 2023
morphinapgmorphinapg
Rated 27 Mar 2023
72
56th
This one is hard to rate. On one hand, the production is incredible, with brilliant designed sets and cinematography, and Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt give fantastic performances, and there are plenty of memorable moments as well. However, while all the pieces seem right, they just don't fit together very well. There isn't enough of an interesting story here. I don't see myself watching this again.
Rated 27 Mar 2023
elmakebabielmakebabi
Rated 05 Mar 2023
85
94th
Begins like a Fellini film: Fun, wild and imaginative. Ends like a Spielberg film: Dull, tamed and generic. Though, The biggest issue emerge from Conrad. While he's definitely not irrelevant, he has no interaction with the protagonists or the unfolding events. Consequently, he renders the film into a fragmented structure. They could combine his attributes with Manny. Nevertheless, this's one of the best films of the year or maybe decade thanks to many already-iconic and jaw-dropping sequences.
Rated 05 Mar 2023
ericamblerericambler
Rated 28 Feb 2023
71
49th
A messy, fascinating, rousing version of the story Hollywood *doesn't* like to tell about itself. Such a shame that the disappointing ending walks that back quite a bit, making it clear that its trangressions are just for show. But man, what a show!
Rated 28 Feb 2023
thatyoungmthatyoungm
Rated 01 Feb 2023
83
19th
The ending of Babylon is a brilliant ode to cinema, but I'm not sure the meandering chaotic mess that precedes it earned that ending. Chazelle takes us into the early days of Hollywood and does not shy away from the debauchery and excess that accompanied it. There are plenty of bodily fluids and orgies on screen and though Chazelle wants us to remember the bodies that laid the foundation for the movies we love today, those stories often get swallowed in the film's nonstop gluttony.
Rated 01 Feb 2023
rudolph101Rudolph101
Rated 28 Jan 2023
88
91st
It's Hollywood's worst kept secret, but the uproar when Tobey Maguire came into shot was an unforgettable experience
Rated 28 Jan 2023
montycircusMontyCircus
Rated 11 Jan 2023
40
38th
A frenzied mess, manically pinballing from scene to scene. The good news is, the 3+ hours only feels like 2. It answers the question: "What if 'Singin' in the Rain', instead of being bottled joy, was instead a 'Boogie Nights' tragedy?"
Rated 11 Jan 2023
filliganFilligan
Rated 30 Dec 2022
87
67th
There’s a difference between an indulgent film and a film about indulgence. Babylon is a grotesque film, but is it boring? Never. It’s probably too long, but at least Chazelle infuses the work with passion and love, and he continues to build on his trademark energy—guided by terrific musical kineticism. If this missteps anywhere, it’s with the baffling final montage, which draws unnecessary comparisons and is so on the nose that it’s probably the grossest depiction in the whole film.
Rated 30 Dec 2022
pianosamaPianoSama
Rated 30 Dec 2022
70
82nd
Ending montage aside- it was one of the worst things I have ever seen in a movie and that isn't exaggeration, I'm sorry it was terrible- this was pretty fun. Wild, chaotic, depressing, exciting, enchanting, and many other things. An epic of modern Hollywood, for better and worse.
Rated 30 Dec 2022
bowfingerbowfinger
Rated 27 Nov 2024
30
23rd
I want a Haneke remake for this flick.
Rated 27 Nov 2024
bookhouseboybookhouseboy
Rated 02 Nov 2024
55
71st
#24#, rw3, popcorn, story, creator Chazelle, cast
Rated 02 Nov 2024
djrossdjross
Rated 26 Sep 2024
35
19th
An actor who can’t make the transition to sound, a Mexican on the make, a black jazz musician, an Asian lesbian and, most of all, a talented but low-class free-spirited girl, all battle hard against the rich and powerful stiffs, only to find themselves chewed up and spat out by the Dream Factory anyway. Almost none of the humour works for me, and the constantly hysterical approach overshadows any intended significance, despite dialogue explaining that significance all too clearly.
Rated 26 Sep 2024
gabegnimgabegnim
Rated 17 Sep 2024
89
68th
Love it
Rated 17 Sep 2024
myfavchordsmyfavchords
Rated 19 Jul 2024
78
72nd
This film is a wild ride. The script has several outrageous moments, you are not sure what is going to come next. The cast do a good job with their roles here. Overall I would recommend this film.
Rated 19 Jul 2024
gavin0923Gavin0923
Rated 04 Feb 2024
83
35th
Margot Robbie
Rated 04 Feb 2024
couchzoneCouchZone
Rated 17 Jan 2024
84
51st
Margot Robbie 👍
Rated 17 Jan 2024
sadmanSadman
Rated 07 Jan 2024
65
19th
An exhausting experience. Even with three hours of runtime, it does not manage to tell a full story; Too many disparate characters being followed to get too connected or interested in any of them. The wild mix of tones grates; At times very funny but mostly just assailing you with rabid debauchery. Thematically, I was on board and think Chazelle has balls to ask hard questions about the price for art and especially movies but a great theme doesn't make a three hour movie an enjoyable experience.
Rated 07 Jan 2024
mattorama12mattorama12
Rated 28 Dec 2023
61
36th
I fundamentally don't understand the concept here. It reads as a love-letter to the history of cinema, but then everything memorable it does seems aimed at making you cringe at its excesses? But the bigger issue was just that it felt like there wasn't really a motivating force for the first 2+ hours and montages only go so far. Fine performances and there is some good humor, though.
Rated 28 Dec 2023
amazedemonamazedemon
Rated 12 Nov 2023
64
51st
Babylon starts with a literal shitshow and ends pretty much the same way. Chazelle's film is excessively long, often pretentious and doesn't really go anywhere other than a played-out, tragic, Hollywood love story and Chazelle fawning over cinema as he peers into the underbelly of the Golden Age. Pitt and Robbie are great, though not a stretch after Tarantino's OUaTiH. Could definitely hear shades of La La Land in the score. Some amusing moments, but overall it's empty recycling.
Rated 12 Nov 2023
luthar15luthar15
Rated 31 Aug 2023
0
11th
kito1kito1
Rated 08 Jul 2023
70
73rd
Some amazingly bombastic scenes and a feeling of things "just coming together".
Rated 08 Jul 2023
dolphinspursDolphinSpurs
Rated 05 Jul 2023
65
20th
Chazelle, a top Hollywood director these days, does nothing short of try to chronicle the history of American film with Babylon. Centered on the transition from the silent era to talkies, this film is excess at its most excessive. Taking cues from Singing in the Rain, All About Eve, The Artist, Sunset Blvd and more, the movie is stuffed with references and reverence to Hollywood's Golden Age. Inevitably, it collapses under all this weight, overly long without much of a central point. PSI: 77
Rated 05 Jul 2023
darrenDarren
Rated 29 Jun 2023
74
63rd
More in line with Phantom of the Paradise than Singin’ in the Rain. A movie where you’re covered in shit from start to finish. Hollywood is a vile town and the ending is one of the more cynical ones. All this tech, all this pain and this is the art we get???
Rated 29 Jun 2023
brellbrell
Rated 23 Jun 2023
20
17th
so, uh, this is just boogie nights but bad, right? shame on me for seeing this one first
Rated 23 Jun 2023
mandymandy
Rated 21 Jun 2023
6
43rd
Expectations were fairly low-so more enjoyable than anticipated, definitely over long and self indulgent, suiting the subject matter. It covered quite a few different perspectives of the Golden Age of Hollywood .
Rated 21 Jun 2023
jnydamjnydam
Rated 12 May 2023
65
63rd
A bit long, but it’s at its best when the score is present adding excitement to this fascinating story of early acting origins
Rated 12 May 2023
kmcneilKMcNeil
Rated 03 May 2023
8
84th
Jazz Hands: The Movie.
Rated 03 May 2023
psimpsim
Rated 17 Apr 2023
90
98th
Fuck yeah, pull out all the stops, if we keep on partying maybe there really won't be a tomorrow.
Rated 17 Apr 2023
isitfallacyisitfallacy
Rated 16 Apr 2023
75
73rd
If you skip the whole epilogue... it's a decent movie. Still attempting too much for its own good, of course. But I think that if you try to tackle this era and theme, you should go all in, there's no other way too do it. So I'd give it a pass for trying at a task it could never achieve. The last half an hour though.. I kept wondering why people disliked the movie so much but the pointless - less than pointless - epilogue made it clear. Pity it ruins a mostly enjoyable watch.
Rated 16 Apr 2023
tatarbeytatarbey
Rated 12 Apr 2023
89
88th
Söylenecek söz yok. Sinema tarihi ile ilgili ders niteliğinde film. Öylesine izleyen tabi ki bir şey anlamaz ama sinema ile gerçekten ilgilenene, bakmasını bilene okuyan araştıranlara vakti zamanında hollywood'dan daha popüler ve büyük olan pathé stüdyoları da var, Eadweard Muybridge'nin atı da var. Daha milyon tane detay var. 3 saat su gibi aktı gitti keşke bir 3 saati daha olsaydı.
Rated 12 Apr 2023
punqPUNQ
Rated 11 Apr 2023
40
58th
As a guy who's dedicated his life watching films from the era Babylon (2022) is supposed taking place, I did not feel it. When it tried to portray the more outrageous side of the 1920s, it felt almost like a modern horror frat movie. The more ordinary drama elements were elegant, but still struggled to find the right mood to time travel back to that era. Basically had too many ideas and no editor to trim the unnecessary fat off. Goes off the rails for the hell of it.
Rated 11 Apr 2023
iamianimaniamianiman
Rated 19 Mar 2023
65
71st
Yes, it is the least entertaining film from Damien Chazelle's archive collection but this is still a good film.
Rated 19 Mar 2023
kavuKavu
Rated 13 Mar 2023
39
16th
Chazelle's attempt at a love letter to cinema makes both cinema and Chazelle feel totally unlovable.
Rated 13 Mar 2023
ofterdingenOfterdingen
Rated 08 Mar 2023
35
13th
A movie about movies that makes me hate movies.
Rated 08 Mar 2023
matthagenmatthagen
Rated 02 Mar 2023
63
78th
It's alive! How did Chazelle manage to get this crime against Hollywood made? He seems to be aiming for his Boogie Nights moment, and there are plenty of worthy scenes, but he doesn't have the discipline to rein it all in. It's a tremendous, funny, debaucherus, chaotic, frustrating mess of a movie. The technicals are fantastic, and I don't think that Robbie has ever been better. But where is the focus? Even cutting a half hour of nonsense out of it would have made a world of difference.
Rated 02 Mar 2023
neonmanNeonman
Rated 01 Mar 2023
85
81st
Really fun old Hollywood raunchiness made up of several extended vignettes that are a blast to watch and all accumulatively portray the experience of Hollywood/America going from silent to sound, as well as going from one moral code to another. The excess is actually near the start (we don't need to see people partying that much) and I got more invested in these hopeful characters and their hopeless situations in this perverted Hollywood fairytale as it went on.
Rated 01 Mar 2023
hofschneiderHofschneider
Rated 27 Feb 2023
84
79th
What‘s wrong with people? This was amazing… not a perfect but a fun ride with something to say. A point of view. Messiness as a way of live. It`s quite a grown up movie, but when one is brainwashed by the sterilness marvel mediocrity, of course one thinks that a shitting elephant has to be childish. Babylonis is the opposite of Everything, Everywhere, AaO… one movie is telling a coherent story, the other is telling me to „be nice“ a hundred times and calls itself smart. Pick your fighter I guess
Rated 27 Feb 2023
mspraguemsprague
Rated 26 Feb 2023
60
31st
Wow what a mish-mash of a film.
Rated 26 Feb 2023
menialretconMenialRetcon
Rated 24 Feb 2023
66
14th
Fun first hour
Rated 24 Feb 2023
shockularSHOCKULAR
Rated 24 Feb 2023
76
62nd
Feels like it could have been more, but this is a mostly interesting and entertaining film about the transition from silent films to sound films. Robbie is really good and Maguire is delightfully creepy in a small role. It falls apart in the end somewhat, and the beginning is definitely the strongest part. There are some really great scenes, and one tracking shot in the first 10 minutes that I have no idea how they did. Hugely ambitious and succeeds in a lot of areas, but fails in others.
Rated 24 Feb 2023
stoickovstoickov
Rated 19 Feb 2023
65
30th
Empty spectacle. A lot of cool scenes.
Rated 19 Feb 2023
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 19 Feb 2023
87
79th
A broad, splashy, entertaining tribute to Pre-Golden Age Hollywood; Chazelle’s direction pulls the viewer through a range of breathless vignettes and eccentric characters, balancing the surreal with a sense of the authentic, especially whenever the brilliant pair of Robbie and Pitt are front and centre. The final hour becomes repetitive and too much of a good thing, leading to a finale that desperately (almost successfully) plucks at the heartstrings of movie buffs, but feels too glib.
Rated 19 Feb 2023
hajikarimihajikarimi
Rated 17 Feb 2023
93
82nd
1940: wonderful.
Rated 17 Feb 2023
christofchristof
Rated 14 Feb 2023
65
21st
I have now officially seen way too many self-indulgent-golden-age-of-cinema films...Cinema Paradiso was more than enough, Hugo was already too much. These three hours of self-indulgence adds nothing more worthwhile or substantial to the canon - No more please!
Rated 14 Feb 2023
ernestinaErnestina
Rated 12 Feb 2023
50
53rd
It's a very saturated, crowded movie. Feels like we get more dynamic Oscars in 2023 than previous years (this, Everything Everywhere..., RRR). There is yet to be a Margot Robbie role I like... and Tobey Maguire is the best thing that happened to the movie. The last 20-30 minutes were disappointing, but nonetheless it's an experience I don't regret having.
Rated 12 Feb 2023
war_machineWar Machine
Rated 11 Feb 2023
65
40th
Coolmagicmomentsbeingcaptured+it'sMargot'smovie-therestisokayandshemightjustbethenicereturnfromthosesceneslol+28-talkies+IWILLSHITONYOUIWILLSHITINYOURMOUTHIPROMISEYOU+alldriveforherdadtofightasnakelool+32+eternitywithangelsandghosts+shewalkedintothedark+52
Rated 11 Feb 2023
mrcinemaMr.Cinema
Rated 10 Feb 2023
73
93rd
Intresting Hollywood Work!!! Spectacular Entertaining Film!!!
Rated 10 Feb 2023
aaautinAAAutin
Rated 07 Feb 2023
79
89th
(TALKIE NIGHTS)
Rated 07 Feb 2023
greenerGreener
Rated 07 Feb 2023
65
49th
Some people will love how vast (not just in terms of running time) the movie is, while some people will hate it for the exactly same reason. I am somewhere in the middle, but the ending montage was strangely appealing.
Rated 07 Feb 2023
muutanetmuutanet
Rated 07 Feb 2023
64
56th
If this movie was a two hour movie it was excellent. During that time you started to look at the time. How long it was actually? The silent movie époque was the best. What happened after that was not that interesting. Meaningful for the story but lasted too long.
Rated 07 Feb 2023
howler19howler19
Rated 06 Feb 2023
62
68th
I'm kind of over movies celebrating movies at this point and there is an unnecessary fascination with body fluids. There is no doubt that this is the worst I've seen from Chazelle, but that says more about his standard until now than anything else. Despite all the imperfections, I really like the way the story is set up relating to Singin' in the Rain, and the themes from that movie is captured beautifully from different perspectives in several scenes.
Rated 06 Feb 2023
cinaticcinatic
Rated 05 Feb 2023
99
86th
These long films always require the viewer to be ready for consumption, where will the journey head to, what will happen, am i ready to fully devote myself to all the things happening in the movie? It was a hell of journey through all the feelings, all the ups and downs, the mix through times and different characters, very nice entertainment, next great thing from whiplash and lala land maker autor
Rated 05 Feb 2023
ysincYSinc
Rated 05 Feb 2023
82
93rd
+music +acting +production +directing
Rated 05 Feb 2023
mistephanemistephane
Rated 04 Feb 2023
100
99th
Sorry, people l, but it is amazing! The music, the insanity, the costumes, everything, is just marvelous. What a piece of work! I am in love.
Rated 04 Feb 2023
ecitizeneCitizen
Rated 02 Feb 2023
70
70th
Holy crap, Margot Robbie was once again on fire in this movie. I was hooked from the opening scenes with the craziest Hollywood party that's ever been thrown. The whirlwind production starts at the end of silent movies and the start of talkies. Robbie plays a hot mess train wreck. Diego Calva was charismatic and performed well. Brad Pitt was also enjoyable. I enjoyed almost all of it. The only dings were Tobey Maquire and the utterly ridiculous mobsters club, and the rather lackluster ending.
Rated 02 Feb 2023
luxnatalisLuxNatalis
Rated 02 Feb 2023
29
13th
More boring than a 0-0 soccer game in a rain-soaked pitch, Round of 32 UEFA Intertoto Cup. And with a more-than-double of the match's duration, you should add to that extra time, penalties and a press conference as well. The only redeeming qualities I could find were the music and the Dionysian complexion of some of the scenes. Well, after 3 successful hits, we should have expected the first misfire in Chazelle's career, but if you're gonna produce a snoozefest, at least make it a bit shorter.
Rated 02 Feb 2023
sproostsproost
Rated 01 Feb 2023
70
66th
Apart from the first (faecal slapstick) and last (cringeworthy movie compilation including Avatar ffs) 5 minutes i liked this movie. Messy sure, but gushing with color and vibrance and completely over the top, not a single boring moment in the 3h08 runtime although of course not everything works. Of commendable ambition and grand vision, Chazelle reminds me a bit of Spielberg, but the Pegi-18 version. His setups are sweeping and always carry tension and forward motion.
Rated 01 Feb 2023
bzymusbzymus
Rated 30 Jan 2023
73
50th
audiovisual 76 acting 78 overall feeling 65 avg 73
Rated 30 Jan 2023
luordluord
Rated 30 Jan 2023
51
27th
Within the first five minutes, someone gets literally showered in shit, which I feel it's a metaphor, but can't quite put my finger on how. It's also ironically prescient and certainly not in the way Chazelle intended. What's annoying is that I could practically feel the ingredients for greatness all throughout, but it never coalesced.
Rated 30 Jan 2023
cesarcastagCesarCastag
Rated 29 Jan 2023
100
94th
Quando Chazelle celebra figuras históricas como Clara Bow e Duke Ellington, ele o faz para dar conta da complexidade política e da diversidade performática que fizeram parte da construção do cinema estadunidense. Os excessos de Babilônia, ainda que tenham evidentemente também a função diferenciar o filme pelo viés do exagero, serve também como um marco de posição em favor de fazer o caminho de volta e reencontrar as performances anteriores à tomada conservadora do cinema hollywoodiano.
Rated 29 Jan 2023
neyoneyo
Rated 29 Jan 2023
70
11th
A classic Hollywood movie but its sad to see that 100 years in Hollywood didn't have any progress for human beings but more technology shift. Still character building, visuals are nice to watch. Script tho is a very classical Hollywood movie and fails to deliver the Babylon message.
Rated 29 Jan 2023
walkearthwalkearth
Rated 26 Jan 2023
60
60th
The lesser Pitt and Robbie ode to Hollywood. Where Tarantino was tight and knew what he was doing, Chazelle seems a tad disjointed and chaotic here, perhaps he had to make this 20 years from now. At parts feels like a forced Oscar-bait too. Unnecessary ending montage, excellent homage to Singin' in the Rain and the Hollywood of old, threading the thin line of glorifying and condemning it. Sickening amount of babylon-esque hedonism, lowly passions, vice, corruption and filth. /c Cinema City Sofia
Rated 26 Jan 2023
kasperlKasperL
Rated 26 Jan 2023
75
77th
Chazelle's script has its shortcomings but I found myself captivated and entertained nevertheless.
Rated 26 Jan 2023
bownBown
Rated 23 Jan 2023
81
57th
An absolutely exceptional comedy that gradually morphs into a mediocre and mawkish drama. There is so much to love here - the visuals! the performances! the humour! the production design! THE SCORE!!!!! - but the character arcs are extremely thin and don’t hold up when the movie slows down in the second half, and the sentimental “power of cinema!” tone is too saccharine and too at odds with the attempts at criticism. So close to being a masterpiece, but Chazelle gonna Chazelle.
Rated 23 Jan 2023
darknightsDarkNights
Rated 21 Jan 2023
65
56th
L'exact opposé de La La Land... avec les mêmes rêves, mais en enfer. Les personnages sont humiliés, maltraités, et tués. C'est triste, dérangeant, rigolo. Mais quelle fin de merde ! Pourquoi nous gâcher notre plaisir avec une séquence d'Avatar. Non ! Et toute la partie avec Tobey Maguire est ridicule. Elle va juste servir à fabriquer du cringe sur internet. Bravo à Damien Chazelle, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, et Jean Smart surtout. J’espérais mieux mais c'était bien quand même.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
edkrakedkrak
Rated 21 Jan 2023
80
83rd
It's uneven and the ending is unbelievably bad (and I don't mean Ed Wood bad, it's meta-cringe-matrix4-I-can't-believe-what-I'm-seeing bad), but it's also a lot of fun. And it's totally tasteless, dark humor, R18 fun that I wouldn't really expect from modern Hollywood including dwarf jumping on a huge dick-shaped pogo stick and spurting fake sperm on people dancing and cheering in front of him.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
seethruskinSeethruskin
Rated 21 Jan 2023
4
51st
It’s a bit muddled on what it wants to say but it’s hard to deny its filmmaking and power to work you over and drag you into the film. The best use of elephant bodily fluids since Freddy got fingered.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
teemukeskteemukesk
Rated 20 Jan 2023
82
70th
It has many ups and downs. I loved the whole opening party sequence, I loved the sequence where they recorded audio for the first time.. but towards the end I totally disliked the Tobey Maguire scene and others. Margot Robbie is phenomenal, but Brad Pitt and Diego Calva are amazing too. I have to say that the score, cinematography and product design were great though. And then there's the length, which could have been shorter.
Rated 20 Jan 2023
adragon91ADragon91
Rated 20 Jan 2023
75
80th
Damien Chazelle’s love letter to early era Hollywood is self-indulgent and over the top in places, but it manages to stay entertaining for its entire 3 hour runtime and have some relatability and messaging to it. In a way it reminded me of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights in places. Tobey Maguire was a highlight and yeah the film is all over the place and meandering, but I appreciate its ambition.
Rated 20 Jan 2023
ptaylor54ptaylor54
Rated 20 Jan 2023
70
45th
70
Rated 20 Jan 2023
fredericg54frederic_g54
Rated 18 Jan 2023
7
58th
There's no faulting Chazelle as a director; Babylon is about as competently made as any of his previous films, an impressive feat considering his still relatively young age. It makes me forgive the occasional misstep, the most blatant of which being the facepalm inducing finale. But what precedes is an electric, intoxicating and ultimately reflective portrait about the ephemerality of fame and the often destructive sparkle of being in the limelight, a story I wouldn't mind diving into once more.
Rated 18 Jan 2023
frederikaFrederikA
Rated 12 Jan 2023
80
86th
Sure, it drags on and doesn't stick the landing (arguably crashed it), but the pure chaotic energy of the first couple of hours is such a blast, that it I can see past that, and despite retreading many commonplace and somewhat banal tropes of this particular Hollywood-introspect subgenre (a point the movie's clearly self aware about) it's skips and dances across the most aggravating pitfalls with ease.
Rated 12 Jan 2023
stuie299stuie299
Rated 31 Dec 2022
85
76th
It's really good up until the last third. Easily one of Robbie's best performances, and Pitt is reliably great as always. I really like how alive the cinematography feels. It does a great job energizing all of the chaos. The contrast between the silent era and the beginnings of sound were done really well. But once you get to the gambling debt and Maguire's character it kinda falls apart. If it was just a half an hour shorter with a reworked ending it would have been a fantastic movie.
Rated 31 Dec 2022
therealj_roTheRealJ-Ro
Rated 26 Dec 2022
70
42nd
FAR superior to whatever Tarantino was thinking with OUATIH. Actually had a story; even "lays out" and asks you to take in and ruminate on what you've seen. Has some grit and intensity. But this needed to be three hours like I needed thirds at Thanksgiving. I can't say it's a great movie, or even recommend that most people should see it. What I can say is, it's good enough that I wasn't mad that I paid for it, and there was enough going on to keep me invested even if it DID run way too long.
Rated 26 Dec 2022
thervealThe_Rveal
Rated 22 Dec 2022
35
54th
The sheer heedlessness of Babylon is its finest quality, undercut a little by a squareness and sentimentality just under the surface. Chazelle seems to know we’re in another era that’s dying, too, and he’s inviting us to his own bonfire, with $80 million of Paramount’s money as kindling. The flame burns hot and it burns out, and movie lovers are left to wander off into the cold, cold night.
Rated 22 Dec 2022
ajaywAjayw
Rated 13 Dec 2022
64
32nd
An ode to 20's cinema and beyond. Plenty of eye candy and lots of nods to cinema greats past and present. However, it failed to maintain its tone for more than a scene or two and could have easily been 30-45 minutes shorter.
Rated 13 Dec 2022

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