It's a really vivid life at a certain part of life.

A new restoration of this 1980 British cult classic makes plain that its themes of disaffection and racial discord in south London are still relevant nearly four decades later.

Babylon's cultural specificity is what gives it power, putting it as much in a tradition of British alienated youth movies.

... a high-energy film steeped in the Jamaican subculture of South London and the music culture of reggae, dub, and lover’s rock, and ... a social document capturing the black experience in the racially-charged atmosphere of Thatcher’s England.