
Movie review
Tales of Babylon
Woke Score
Lower is better
- Release Date
- June 11, 2023
- Age Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 125 min
Where to Watch
United States · Last checked 5/12/2026
Free
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Breakdown
Factors & Ratings
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Tales of Babylon.
Representation / casting choices
Prominent roles for non-white actors as hitmen and a female assassin in a modern London crime story with no visible forced diversity, identity signaling, or mismatches to setting or character logic.
Political / ideological dialogue
No activist, political, or social-justice dialogue; all conversation stays within crime jobs, banter, pop-culture references, and personal stakes.
Identity-driven story themes
Family abuse, sibling escape, hitman loyalty, and child protection arcs contain no modern identity politics, gender wish-fulfillment, or racial framing.
Institutional / cultural critique
Mobster grandfather's abuse and underworld violence stay personal and genre-specific with no reframing into toxic masculinity, patriarchy, capitalism, or systemic oppression messaging.
