Margot Robbie panned for Babylon

[Stepfon]

In some reviews she is getting outright pans for her acting: 

 

Her downfall—and this is very much a movie about downfalls, which means there will be an amazing symmetry if Babylon is Chazelle’s first real flop—is typical “crazy broad” ****, a paranoid K-hole of drug abuse and gambling debt. It’s along the lines of Sharon Stone’s final scenes in Casino, but Robbie is no Stone. She isn’t even Elizabeth Berkeley—Nellie’s supposedly attention-commanding dancing at the party looks like Nomi Malone with less technique.

Robbie...tries really hard. Unfortunately, she does that thing Madonna often does in movies: devise a very specific characterization for her character but do little to fill it in. As Nellie, Robbie is a kind of outline of a “wild child” with more than a dash of her Harley Quinn thrown in; there’s little there beyond the luridness of her every over-the-top move.

 

 

https://jezebel.com/babylon-movie-review-1849899502

 

 

Robbie, in a film-ruining performance, is more attuned to Chazelle’s sensibilities but nevertheless manages to tank Babylon with her artless, emotionless insensitivity. Sandwiched between Pitt, who is stuck in a side subplot, and Calva, who is too green to front a big film like this, Robbie should have assumed center stage and carried the film on her shoulders. In this mélange of helter-skelter shenanigans, she could have been the figure that eventually holds and grips the audience and takes them on a journey along with her. That’s what Emma Stone would have done, for whom the part was written.

The character of Nelly is a wild-child, a manic-pixie who implodes and leaves a wake of destruction in her wake. One can imagine Stone, bringing her empathetic stardom to bear, making the audience care for even this person. Robbie manages no such miracle. She plays a crude, snide, foul-mouthed nuisance, Harley Quinn all over again from the DC films or even Tonya Harding from I, Tonya (2017).

At this point, it is worth pondering whether Robbie is simply a one-trick pony or essentially playing herself in all her parts. There was some outrage when it was first reported that Robbie might be campaigned in the Supporting category for awards consideration. Turns out that outrage was misplaced because Robbie manages the unlikely feat of giving a supporting performance in a leading role.

https://screenanarchy.com/2022/12/review-babylon-outsized-ambition-shoddy-execution.html
 

The calm before she storms Best Actress next year with Barbie…

 

[EnigmaticAndroid]

"film-ruining performance" and "the unlikely feat of giving a supporting performance in a leading role" are two of the most out of pocket drags I've seen in awhile 

 

Also kii at the random (and accurate) Madge mention 

[Katamari]

OVER and PANNED

 

time for onlyfans queen!

[Darkgalord]

[futurenostalgic]

"Robbie manages the unlikely feat of giving a supporting performance in a leading role"

 

[Jessie]

So basically what we gleaned from the trailer confirmed. Margot — a painfully square person — is playing a caricature of a wild child whose broadness worked for her in the OTT world of Suicide Squad but feels ridiculous being redeployed here. It makes what Zendaya was going in Euphoria seem even more impressive by comparison.

 

I still want to watch mainly for Jean Smart.

[SinnerCity]

5 minutes ago, futurenostalgic said:

"Robbie manages the unlikely feat of giving a supporting performance in a leading role"

 

They ended her big time with this one

[Blade Runner]

"At this point, it is worth pondering whether Robbie is simply a one-trick pony or essentially playing herself in all her parts." 

 

I mean, Barbie looks like another Harley Quinn type of performance from her. She needs to chill and make more adult, less convulsed dramas. 

[kandicha]

the way that back in march/april all the awards blogs were saying that she would sweep this awards season, and now she's probably fighting for the 5th best actress spot at the oscars. 

 

i do like her and i hope she can turn it around with Barbie.

[X~MoviePoP]

All she does is play harley quin in everything 

[Quaithe]

We need her to give up that Oscar spot for Vicky Krieps.

[Reverse Warholian]

[LuputaNyongo]

17 minutes ago, kandicha said:

the way that back in march/april all the awards blogs were saying that she would sweep this awards season, and now she's probably fighting for the 5th best actress spot at the oscars. 

 

i do like her and i hope she can turn it around with Barbie.

She should've saved the leading role of Promising Young Woman for herself. Probably she'd already been an Oscar winner if she had done that

[Stepfon]

6 minutes ago, LuputaNyongo said:

She should've saved the leading role of Promising Young Woman for herself. Probably she'd already been an Oscar winner if she had done that

That role was never going to win an Oscar. 

[i spit on haters]

Good. **** her. And I'm saying this as a former fan.

 

And BABYLON looks like trash. Still going to illegally d/l it, though.

[Superbitch]

38 minutes ago, Quaithe said:

We need her to give up that Oscar spot for Vicky Krieps.

Nah. MEHryl needs to 

[Superbitch]

23 minutes ago, LuputaNyongo said:

She should've saved the leading role of Promising Young Woman for herself. Probably she'd already been an Oscar winner if she had done that

Eww no that role fit Carey perfectly. 

[BloodLuster]

they skull dragged her 

 

I think she should stick to movies like Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. she was great there 

[Donquizote]

Finally everyone realizes that she is a one trick pony.

A bomb after bomb. 

[Horizon Flame]

She can’t act. This isn’t breaking news. We know. 

[RunBoyRun]

57 minutes ago, LuputaNyongo said:

She should've saved the leading role of Promising Young Woman for herself. Probably she'd already been an Oscar winner if she had done that

Was she attached to that? I really can't see anyone but Carry Mulligan in that. (Not sure if name is spelled correctly.) Carry did an amazing job. 

 

Also, if this was for Emma Stone, what happened there? Did she turn it down?

[RunBoyRun]

52 minutes ago, Stepfon said:

That role was never going to win an Oscar. 

Sorry for the double posting but, why not? I honestly thought it was the one that should've won that year. 

[Broken]

Lemme repost this here:

 

Babylon's RT score is dropping like a rock. 

 

 

 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/babylon_2022

 

93% -> 64% 

 

Another L for Box Office Poison Margot Robbie.

[Stepfon]

7 minutes ago, RunBoyRun said:

Sorry for the double posting but, why not? I honestly thought it was the one that should've won that year. 

I just never saw it as an Oscar winning role, Carey did amazing in the role and should have won the Oscar but the role isn’t the typical role that the Academy goes for. 

[Mellark]

Should’ve casted Gaga and release a Babylon (Movie Remix)