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In ‘Babylon,’ Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie share billing with poop, vomit and over-the-top spectacle

Self-indulgent, stomach-churning epic from director Damien Chazelle offers little insight on 1920s Hollywood.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: The Silent Film Era Roars Again in ‘Babylon’

“Perhaps the ballyhoo meant nothing,” Kevin Brownlow wrote in his defining history of the silent film era, “The Parade’s Gone By…” It’s probably true that even avid moviegoers have increasingly drifted away from the films of what Brownlow called, with good reason, “the richest in cinema’s history.” In 1952, the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: 'Babylon' douses you with sex, drugs, vomit and elephant diarrhea. You … might like it?

Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" begins in a dusty stretch of Southern California desert in the 1920s, with the delivery of an elephant that will serve as one of the more quixotic performers at an exclusive Hollywood house party. While being carted uphill to the venue where various movers and shakers will…

Los Angeles Times

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'Babylon' review: Damien Chazelle's latest takes excess to a new level

Damien Chazelle's sprawling "Babylon" is the flip side to his 2016 hit "La La Land." Both are movies about movies, set primarily in Los Angeles and focus on characters who dream. But where "La La Land" was all lightness, a gentle valentine to love and hope and the larger-than-life way…

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‘Babylon’ review: The glory and cruelty of Hollywood in the last days of silent pictures

As a cinematic study in risk and reward, the first four features from director Damien Chazelle just plain work, often dazzlingly. He knows how and when to move a camera. You know how rare that is these days? Steven Spielberg; Paul Thomas Anderson; a few others. And Chazelle.

Chicago Tribune

Movie review: Debauched 'Babylon' vacillates from tribute to indictment of Hollywood

Damien Chazelle would really like to talk to you about “Singin’ in the Rain.” Of course, you already know the 1952 Stanley Donen MGM meta musical comedy starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds about the transition from silent to sound films, but if not, Chazelle will recount it for you,…

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Brad Pitt claims unscripted Margot Robbie kiss is 'tamest thing' in their new film

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie star alongside each other as debauched movie stars in new film Babylon, with the actors opening up about some of the behind-the-scenes mayhem

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Babylon review: Damien Chazelle’s debauched masterpiece has orgies, elephants, spanking and Margot Robbie

Tailor-made to divide audiences, this is the ‘La La Land’ director’s rocket-powered rebuke to claims he’s too sentimental

The Independent UK

Babylon review – Brad Pitt suaves through a grand hymn to golden age Hollywood

Pitt and Margot Robbie, and many razzle dazzle setpieces, help lift a story in no hurry to engage with the true-life nastiness of its era

The Guardian - UK

Golden Globes nominations 2023: The Banshees of Inisherin leads with eight

Martin McDonagh’s black comedy emerges as early frontrunner, while Everything Everywhere All At Once picks up six and Babylon and The Fabelmans take five

The Guardian - UK

The 22 best (and 5 worst) movies of 2022, a 'Maverick' kind of year

After two years Hollywood would rather forget, 2022 offered some hope.

Tribune News Service

Margot Robbie says she took her ‘opportunity’ to kiss Brad Pitt on Babylon

Robbie’s kiss with Pitt was unscripted

The Independent UK

Movie review: 'Empire of Light' an ode to the movies that fails to captivate

In “Empire of Light,” Sam Mendes casts a nostalgic eye toward the movies. Like several other auteurs this winter season, Mendes has crafted what could be considered a “love letter to cinema” (see also: Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon”), but “Empire of Light” is less of a mash…

Tribune News Service

Margot Robbie says she took her ‘opportunity’ to kiss Brad Pitt on Babylon

Robbie’s kiss with Pitt was unscripted

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Los Angeles Times

Sifting through clues and contenders in this year's Oscar best picture race

LOS ANGELES — What do you do with a movie that begins with an elephant losing control of its bowels, torrentially defecating right into the camera lens, and then heads straight to a party where we're immediately greeted with an extended shot of a woman urinating on a reveler?

The Independent UK

Babylon: La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s new film called ‘strange’, ‘debauched’ and ‘a flaming hot mess’

Three-hour Hollywood epic seems to be the love/hate film of the year

Evening Standard

‘A flaming hot mess’: Babylon critics pan Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie’s new film

It was written and directed by Damien Chazelle, who’s known for the critically acclaimed La La Land and Whiplash

Evening Standard

And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

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The Guardian - UK

Life through a lens: Spielberg’s latest leads triple-whammy of movies about movies

It’s the subgenre beloved by insiders but often shunned by audiences. Can new films from Sam Mandes, Damien Chazelle and Steven Spielberg satisfy cinemagoers and awards voters?

Los Angeles Times

LA-set 'Babylon' trailer lands with mad-eyed Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt

"La La Land" director Damien Chazelle just shuffled audiences back to Los Angeles on Tuesday — but way back to the 1920s.

Evening Standard

Babylon: Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie party in 1920s Hollywood in their latest film

It’s a time of hedonism in Twenties Los Angeles

Asharq Al-Awsat

Magic of Cinema in Focus as Mendes Celebrates Toronto Festival Comeback

As crowds finally flocked back to the Toronto film festival after two years thwarted by Covid-19, Hollywood's top directors from Sam Mendes to Steven Spielberg put the escapism and collective experience of cinema in the spotlight with their latest films debuting at the event. "American Beauty" and "1917" director Mendes…

The New Daily

From Barbie to Babylon: The ‘brash and bold’ faces of Margot Robbie

Margot Robbie will have worked on a massive seven films in a year, as Barbie and Amsterdam wrap and the first shots of Babylon are released

Tribune News Service

What to stream: With Ryan Gosling's return in 'The Gray Man,' where to find actor's best films

After four long years, Ryan Gosling returns to the movies, starring in the Netflix action Flick “The Gray Man.” The last we saw of Gosling, he was playing another notable “man,” as Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s moon movie “First Man” back in 2018. Now, he’s back in action, beefed…

The Independent UK

Babylon: Brad Pitt is ‘unrecognisable’ in first footage from Damien Chazelle film

‘La La Land’ director’s next is scheduled for wide release on 6 January

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