Barry Lyndon

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Barry Lyndon

PG

Released Dec 18, 1975

3h 4m

Drama

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How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal) the answer is: any way he can! His climb to wealth and privilege is the enthralling focus of this sumptuous Stanley Kubrick version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.

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Critics Consensus

Visually astonishing and placid as a pond in the English countryside, Stanley Kubrick's maddening and masterful Barry Lyndon renders a hollow life with painterly poise.

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Joseph Gelmis

Newsday

A magnificent Ferrari compared to the assembly line of Volkswagens and Cadillacs of moviedom. To criticize Kubrick for making a gorgeous movie about a loveless world of decadent grandeur is like bawling out Dostoevsky for writing about [degenerates].

Feb 25, 2025

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Alexander Walker

London Evening Standard

What he did for the future in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick in Barry Lyndon has done for the past. He has projected us into an age of amazing strangeness.

Feb 25, 2025

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Rex Reed

New York Daily News

Kubrick is one of the few directors working in films today who can legitimately be called a genius without blushing. He has made a motion picture extravaganza that combines art, literature and love, raising the movies to a cultural zenith.

Feb 25, 2025

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John Huddy

Miami Herald

A pretentious, tiresome, fatuous bore, a piece of inflated and contrived elegance that is as desolate as the backside of the moon. Protected by his praetorian guard of critics, Stanley Kubrick gives the auteur theory a bad name.

Feb 25, 2025

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Dorothy Smiljanich

Tampa Bay Times

Barry Lyndon is another success for Stanley Kubrick. How unfortunate that so few people will ever know it.

Feb 25, 2025

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Robert Hatch

The Nation

Barry Lyndon is as stultifying as it is prodigious. For a start, the picture appears to have been designed by someone who learned the art at Madame Tussaud's.

Feb 25, 2025

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nick s

I went into this expecting it to be a slow paced, immersive kind of movie, with a plodding and meandering storyline. Which it was. That out of the way, Barry Lyndon is a fabulous body of work. The slow scenes seemed to feel right, the ideas and character arcs were thought provoking. A very visceral, intellectually stimulating film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/02/25

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Priscilla C

tad slow, but worth watching...astonishing attention to period detail...locations to die for...groundbreaking, award winning cinematography...candlelight...simple, but complex script...music perfectly wedded to the image...why did i wait so long?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/29/24

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thiago s

Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é mais ou menos, o filme pode ter cenas bacanas, mas é um filme de 3 horas e deixa o filme fraco, teve cenas de batalhas que salvaram o filme, mas as cenas de dialogo de antigamente deixaram o filme fraco.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/15/24

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M S

Honestly, I've seen this film about 200 times. Every scene is like a painting. If you can't appreciate that, you won't like the film. The characters are perfectly cast, right down to the smallest supporting role, meaning that the leads are just as memorable as the supporting ones. Of course, Barry Lyndon is the character whose journey we follow, but he's like a kid racing down a hill on a soapbox, thinking he can dictate the course of events. The classical music that accompanies the "paintings" may seem depressing to some, but that's just the story.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/06/24

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Fer S

Amazing movie. You can enjoy it a lot even if you are not a history fan. By the end it started getting slow, but it is still such an interesting story.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/30/24

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Rick T

Depressing. Beautifully filmed with a bunch of rotten people.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/25/24

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Synopsis

How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century English nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal) the answer is: any way he can! His climb to wealth and privilege is the enthralling focus of this sumptuous Stanley Kubrick version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, William Makepeace Thackeray
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Hawk Films, Warner Bros., Peregrine
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 18, 1975, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 31, 2007
Runtime: 3h 4m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.66:1)

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