There is a great movie (or maybe like 3) inside BABYLON somewhere, but watching it recalled to me nothing so much as when people make ice sculptures with a chainsaw. The art is in there, and it can be made, but the process of finding and getting to it is extremely difficult, not to mention loud.

Damien Chazelle’s new movie is a sprawling 3+ hour tale that is both (sigh) a love letter to the movies and, unexpectedly, something of…