
Samara Weaving

Olivia Wilde

Li Jun Li

Jovan Adepo

Jean Smart

Damien Chazelle
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
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189minutes
Babylon is a film by director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) that focuses on characters during the great Hollywood boom - when silent films moved to talking pictures, and the medium was reinvented. During this era of decadence and glamorous lifestyles in pure excess, Babylon explores the rise and fall of fictional Hollywood greats that mirror nonfictional actors and actresses throughout American history.
It has a feverish energy that gets lost amid the reverie, and though it has a great cast, it takes too long to make a point as it meanders to its end.