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Play trailer 1:56 Poster for Barbarians Released Apr 1, 2022 1h 29m Mystery & Thriller Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review Glenn Kenny RogerEbert.com Charles Dorfman carries out his ultimately banal aims with commendable dispatch. Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 1, 2022 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Joe D Great flic highly recommend it Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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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