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Barry Lyndon

Play trailer Poster for Barry Lyndon PG Released Dec 18, 1975 3h 4m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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Cynical, ironic, and suffused with seductive natural lighting, Barry Lyndon is a complex character piece of a hapless man doomed by Georgian society.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Barry Lyndon indicates that Kubrick is thinking through his camera, and that's not really how good movies get made. Oct 24, 2023 Full Review Adam Nayman The Ringer The sense of torpor simultaneously helps to call attention to the painterly beauty of the images-widescreen compositions evoking the light and coloring of 18th century paintings-and the grim, fatalistic determinism of the narrative... Mar 27, 2020 Full Review Donald Clarke Irish Times Barry Lyndon is, despite its rigorous construction, also among Kubrick's more emotionally engaged films. Rated: 5/5 Mar 20, 2019 Full Review Kat Halstead Common Sense Media It's not laugh-out-loud funny, but there's a dry wit at play that adds a kind of comedy of manners element to the epic drama about a man at once casually unassuming but unwaveringly ambitious. Rated: 4/5 Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Christopher Connor The Film Magazine Make no mistake, Barry Lyndon is one of Stanley Kubrick’s finest films, its status as a less celebrated offering perhaps coming as the result of its position of release being between the vastly more popular A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. Aug 8, 2023 Full Review Steve Warren The Barb (Atlanta) It may be the most beautifully photographed movie in history, but that's all it is. May 9, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review Rick T Depressing. Beautifully filmed with a bunch of rotten people. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Andrew M When a film absent of dialogue shows two people fall in love, it is a perfect work of art. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/11/24 Full Review Aaron P Barry lyndon is a film with an overly large length and too much filler... is what i have heard far to often this film is kubricks second best beaten only by 2001. my main reason for the love is the due to the gourgious cinematogrophy the simatry in this film is beautiful. another reason i love the film is the score which is elegant yet brash matching the main charector. while the acting leaves much to be desired but as i watched the film i viewed it as more a play. as the sets were all simple the violence was often exaderated etc. the ending of the film (the final duel i mean) is amazing as throughout the film we see bary violently repermand bullingdon. however despite him having an opertunity to fire on him he doesn't instead firing in the ground, which to me implied that he had respect for bullingdon trying to raise him to be stronger. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/04/24 Full Review Kevin L This is not even close to Kubrick's best movies. The friggin' flute & other prancy music in the background is distracting if not outright annoying. Now I know why I skipped this one for so long. O'Neal's acting is often just plain bad. Gimme Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and Clockwork over this pompous, bombastic bore. 2.6 stars Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/20/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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