If you’ve seen Babylon, you’ll never forget it. But not enough people have seen Babylon.
It happened at the premiere screening of the film at Sydney’s State Theatre no less, mere rows away from our bedazzled queen Margot Robbie. Barely 20 minutes in, after an opening scene where a poor stagehand gets doused in elephant dung, and a subsequent scene involving a Weinstein-ian golden shower, I felt my bowels churning, a rising heat drawing sweat across my brow.
Fearing I would pass out right there in my seat, I shuffled awkwardly from my aisle, stepping on toes and bumping against shins as I made it out to the theatre lobby where, discombobulated, I slipped down some stairs in my fancy brogues and black tie, waving away bystanders who offered to help with a shy smile that implied, “Don’t worry, I always fall down stairs dressed like a ’50s crooner.” Within seconds, I was locked in a toilet stall spewing my guts out with a roar.
I could blame some stale popcorn , too much prosecco or a sudden bout of gastroenteritis for my sickness, but it’s more fun to blame Damien Chazelle’s. “This movie is so bad that my body reacted as though I’d ingested cinematic poison through my eyeballs!” would be my quote on the poster. Pauline Kael couldn’t pen such biting film criticism.
Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy in Babylon, the film that nearly killed her career before Barbie saved it., so I already knew what to expect: a piece of filmmaking so bizarrely inept, so confoundingly insane, so, well, gross, you can’t help but laugh wondering how it came to be. Things aren’t allowed to be bad anymore, let alone a thing starring Brad Pitt – how did this happen?knew it was bad.
When it was released in January, most reviewers felt just as confused. Even though it draws a surprising aggregated score of 60 on Metacritic, almost every review is marked by a debilitating neg: “I’ll admit that I found much ofLos Angeles TimesVox
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