Despite star wattage from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, the La La Land director’s overcooked portrait of a nascent Tinseltown is more hysterical than historical
’s hyperventilating, splashboard portrait of early Hollywood, an elephant shits explosively straight on to the screen, covering us in a veritable sewage farm of sloppy excreta. Over the next three hours we’ll be treated to a man chomping down on live rats in the bowels of hell, a giant alligator snapping at the heels of subterranean revellers to the monkey/chimp refrain of, and a rattlesnake sinking its fangs into Margot Robbie’s neck before having its head cut off with a knife.
For all its self-conscious carnivals of bodily fluids and glamorous excess, Babylon is derivative, unexciting fare As the pair’s fortunes change, so does the world to which they have sold their souls, with movies shifting from silents to sound as the wild west lawlessness of the unregulated emergent industry gives way to something altogether more corporate. With almost breathtaking audacity, Chazelle imagines
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