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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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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Audience Member

It’s not often that one gets to watch a movie like this and finds oneself rooting for the bad guys. Unfortunately the ‘good guys’ win.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/21/24

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S B

The most likeable character in this movie was the fox, it was so boring and uninteresting - I kept watching hoping it would turn into what the good reviews claimed but wow nope. The only thing I’d consider horror about this was wasting my time on it, but at least now I saw it so I’ll never have to watch it again.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/18/24

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Ricardo d

As 2 estrelas vão para a fotografia e montagem do filme que torna assistível o roteiro que certamente quem escreveu tomou a droga do Lucas. Não tem sentido, não amarra os acontecimentos e nem dá os desfechos, não define nada, apenas joga tudo no ar e que o espectador se vire em entender. Um filme desnecessário.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/22/24

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Divan v

The writer chose a bunch of ominous things he could think of with zero intention or talent to have them contribute to the movie. A wounded fox, a eary rock that causes disturbing thoughts as shown in her art, animosity between friends, a bottle of drugs and the affair between the main characters. Literally none of which contributed to the story. It's just a botched hostage situation, that's it. Written by a child with a crayon.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/29/23

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Adam

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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: Buckland, Samuel Marshall Productions, 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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