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Babylon: Damien Chazelle's poison pen letter to Hollywood feels masturbatory in its performative self-flagellation

Babylon, the latest from the director of La La Land, Damien Chazelle, stars Robbie, Brad Pitt, an elephant and a mountain of cocaine. But is it more a pile of dung?

ABC News · Jan 18, 2023

"Babylon": Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!

Perhaps Chazelle's greatest accomplishment here is to make Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt boring

Salon · Dec 23, 2022

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 · Dec 21, 2022