Review: 'Babylon' zooms in on Hollywood's wild old days, like 'Singin' in the Rain' on steroids

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Review: 'Babylon' zooms in on Hollywood's wild old days, like 'Singin' in the Rain' on steroids

After romanticizing Hollywood in "La La Land," Damien Chazelle widens his "Another Day of Sun" lens to explore the town's dark roots in "Babylon," which is basically another dawn-of-talkies era "Singin' in the Rain" on a cocktail of ampethamines and steroids. Despite a stellar cast and showy moments (given who's involved how could there not be?), the writer-director's sprawling, messy, three-hour-plus endurance test isn't ready for its closeup.
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