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Assertive and ebullient, "Babylon" is as alive as a movie can be to the everyday mesh of liberating art, humorous camaraderie and hazardous political reality. Mar 14, 2019 | Full Review…
Assertive and ebullient, "Babylon" is as alive as a movie can be to the everyday mesh of liberating art, humorous camaraderie and hazardous political reality.
Robert Abele
The movie is more interested in what feels real than what seems right. Mar 7, 2019 | Full Review…
The movie is more interested in what feels real than what seems right.
Wesley Morris
Deserves acclaim for highlighting the stories of marginalized young black men in a city still predominantly depicted through a white male gaze. Mar 5, 2019 | Full Review…
Deserves acclaim for highlighting the stories of marginalized young black men in a city still predominantly depicted through a white male gaze.
Candice Frederick
An English cousin to the earlier Jamaica-set films The Harder They Come and Rockers that is vastly superior in cinematic terms and just as valuable as a cultural document. Mar 5, 2019 | Full Review…
An English cousin to the earlier Jamaica-set films The Harder They Come and Rockers that is vastly superior in cinematic terms and just as valuable as a cultural document.
John DeFore
Babylon is rich, rough and real. And like the streetlife of the young black Londoners it portrays, it's threatening, touching, violent and funny. Apr 4, 2011 | Full Review…
Babylon is rich, rough and real. And like the streetlife of the young black Londoners it portrays, it's threatening, touching, violent and funny.
Variety Staff
Although the script runs out of steam by the end, the sharp use of location, the meticulous detailing of black culture, the uniformly excellent performances and stimulating soundtrack command attention. Apr 4, 2011 | Full Review…
Although the script runs out of steam by the end, the sharp use of location, the meticulous detailing of black culture, the uniformly excellent performances and stimulating soundtrack command attention.
Time Out Staff
Franco Rosso's "Babylon" breezes along on its own easy-going charm, populated by strong, likable characters, awash with smoky, neon-lit cinematography, and pulsing to an infectious reggae beat. Mar 21, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Franco Rosso's "Babylon" breezes along on its own easy-going charm, populated by strong, likable characters, awash with smoky, neon-lit cinematography, and pulsing to an infectious reggae beat.
David N. Butterworth
An entertaining and culturally significant film that exposes much more than the world of reggae dancehall. It's a fitting companion piece to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Mar 19, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
An entertaining and culturally significant film that exposes much more than the world of reggae dancehall. It's a fitting companion piece to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.
Joe Friar
A cinematic shot of energy that combines a proto-stoner comedy, a gritty musical and a nihilistic call-to-arms into an excoriation of Thatcher-era racism and poverty. Mar 16, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A cinematic shot of energy that combines a proto-stoner comedy, a gritty musical and a nihilistic call-to-arms into an excoriation of Thatcher-era racism and poverty.
Daniel Barnes
Babylon is a hidden gem worth seeking out if it comes to your city. Mar 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Babylon is a hidden gem worth seeking out if it comes to your city.
Lee Jutton
...revealing and raw in its political and sociological spectrum. Unapologetically radical, intrusive and emotionally gripping...a blistering commentary... Mar 9, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...revealing and raw in its political and sociological spectrum. Unapologetically radical, intrusive and emotionally gripping...a blistering commentary...
Frank Ochieng
Babylon is a pulsating document of a time and place as well as a piece of connective tissue from the past to the present. Mar 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Babylon is a pulsating document of a time and place as well as a piece of connective tissue from the past to the present.
David Bax
If The Harder They Come was made in Brixton in Thatcher's early years (1980) with Brinsley Forde from Aswad & Double Deckers, then it might look something like this. Excellent film.
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