Barbarians

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Barbarians

Released Apr 1, 2022

1h 29m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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Set over the course of twenty-four hours, BARBARIANS sees couple Adam (Iwan Rheon) and Eva (Catalina Sandino Moreno) wake up in their supposed dream house on Adam's birthday. Lucas (Tom Cullen), property developer and friend of the couple, arrives for dinner with his actress girlfriend Chloe (Inès Spiridonov), to celebrate Adam's birthday and the couple's buying of the house. But secrets unravel over dinner, and when the doorbell rings the evening takes a nightmarish turn. As manners give way to madness, an 'idyllic' evening of celebration descends into a dark night of terror; and the group's civilized dinner party turns out to be anything but.

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Critics Consensus

Sporadically suspenseful, Barbarians is too tonally indecisive to consistently make its most important points.

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Barbarians is sometimes a comedy of ill manners, sometimes an exhilarating thriller, but it’s also an amusingly clever and sometimes violent parable about venality, vulgarity and territoriality.

Jun 29, 2022

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Mark Peikert

IndieWire

We’ve reached the depressing stage of our society where taking the tiny step from rage into action no longer seems that big a leap. When it comes to exposing the whited sepulcher of modern life, Barbarians can’t compete with the news.

Rated: C

Apr 1, 2022

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

Charles Dorfman carries out his ultimately banal aims with commendable dispatch.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 1, 2022

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John Serba

Decider

Charles Dorfman never gets this blend of satire, psychological thriller and chilly, understated horror to congeal into something memorable.

Jan 5, 2023

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Has some merit but disappoints because it is more interested in the film's conversation parts than in providing the scares needed for a horror pic.

Rated: C+

May 20, 2022

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Kristy Strouse

Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying

Barbarians constructs a level of keen curiosity but eventually fades into the familiar, with an unimpressive final showdown. I wanted to like this much more than I did, and I believe the bones for success were there, if not for a miscalibration of pieces.

Apr 30, 2022

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Anthony V

Film has so much potential. Took way to long to start, the story line build up was weak considering it had everything to do with the twist. Man this could have been a great film but they just didn’t get it right.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/17/25

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Audience Member

Si quieres ver una pelicula aterradora en pareja para asustarte y no poder dormir, te recomiendo barbarian, esta pelicula es un somnífero que me hizo dormirme prácticamente media pelicula

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/25

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Libby K

Slow moving, minimal character development, and often confusing with no resolution. This is the most boring “horror” movie I’ve ever watched.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/09/25

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Lalanea C

Without a doubt one of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen. Pointless everything. Absolutely unlikable characters. I wanted everyone to die. Complete waste of 87 (lonnnnnggg) minutes.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/08/25

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Joe D

Great flic highly recommend it

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/30/24

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Jelisije J

If you really want to tell an actual story maybe you shouldnt wait for the last 30 minutes of the film.....

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/27/24

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Set over the course of twenty-four hours, BARBARIANS sees couple Adam (Iwan Rheon) and Eva (Catalina Sandino Moreno) wake up in their supposed dream house on Adam's birthday. Lucas (Tom Cullen), property developer and friend of the couple, arrives for dinner with his actress girlfriend Chloe (Inès Spiridonov), to celebrate Adam's birthday and the couple's buying of the house. But secrets unravel over dinner, and when the doorbell rings the evening takes a nightmarish turn. As manners give way to madness, an 'idyllic' evening of celebration descends into a dark night of terror; and the group's civilized dinner party turns out to be anything but.

Director: Charles Dorfman
Producer: Laurie Cook, Charles Dorfman, Jason Newmark
Screenwriter: Charles Dorfman
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Production Co: Samuel Marshall Productions, Buckland, Media Finance Capital
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 1, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.5K
Runtime: 1h 29m

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