‘Babylon’ Is a Depraved, Disgusting Ode to Hollywood
“Welcome to the asshole of Los Angeles!” announces Tobey Maguire’s off-kilter criminal character James McCay—red circles around his eyes, affect like Pee-wee Herman after a quaalude—deep into the three-hour epic Babylon. At this point, he feels like a proxy for writer/director Damien Chazelle. Within Babylon’s first…