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Brad Pitt's Performance Splits Between Swagger And Sorrow
- Brad Pitt's Jack Conrad shifts from meta star swagger to deep melancholy, creating tonal mismatch across acts.
- Sean Fennessey praises Pitt's late-film emotional turn while noting the earlier 'meta Brad Pitt' performance feels unearned.
Babylon's Talkie Sequence Is A Bravura Technical Battle
- The film's sound-transition sequence is a bravura, razor-edited scene that dramatizes talkies' birth.
- Margot Robbie and the frenzied sound engineer sell repeated takes, making the scene feel like a battle to capture a single short moment.
Babylon Frames Hollywood As A Rise And Fall Tragedy
- Babylon's middle and final acts enact a classic rise-and-fall about cost of giving life to movies.
- Amanda Dobbins says characters are destroyed by obsession as sound technology and fame reshape careers.