‘Exhausting and unrewarding’: Margot Robbie’s Babylon shocks for all the wrong reasons

The film, starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, is messy. Photo: Paramount

It is to be expected that a film portraying Hollywood as a fickle and soulless industry should be hollow at its core.

But it is surprising that a director with Damien Chazelle’s body of work – Whiplash, La La Land – signed off on this bloated, three-hour beast.