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

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

[html]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.[/html]

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