Barbarians
IFC Midnight | Release Date: April 1, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2
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80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJul 7, 2022
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. Barbarians may be an ambiguous title, but it’s apt. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 1, 2022
Barbarians starts out as a tense psychological thriller unfolding against the tableau of a not-so-friendly dinner before morphing into something decidedly physical and creepy. Read full review
70
Film ThreatPatrice WitherspoonApr 7, 2022
Some pacing issues result in a feature that feels a bit uneven, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t entertained throughout all the craziness. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 30, 2022
Director and writer Charles Dorfman’s debut feature is a corker of a good time to watch and rife with some juicy subtext regarding class, British colonialism, and toxic (read: douchebag) masculinity. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 6, 2022
As the violence escalates and whatever was getting out of hand gets seriously out of hand, Barbarians can turn downright riveting. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 1, 2022
The director carries out his ultimately banal aims with commendable dispatch, and it’s always interesting to see Moreno play a character who’s not a living saint. Read full review
60
Paste MagazineMatt DonatoMar 31, 2022
I’m torn on Barbarians, because while the film displays sharpened technical filmmaking chops, it’s an unbalanced invasion thriller caught between its subgenre intentions. Read full review
50
IndieWire Mark PeikertApr 1, 2022
Nothing about this moodily lit, dinner-party-from-hell film can compete with the real-life drama that unfolded in the middle of the Academy Awards. Or with any other home invasion thriller, for that matter. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMar 31, 2022
Dorfman does an excellent job of constructing a dialogue- and performance-driven chamber piece; but he shows less skill at staging fight scenes and raw terror. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassMar 29, 2022
Throughout, Barbarians oscillates between smugness and apprehensiveness about the film that it’s trying to be. Read full review
30
The New York TimesLena WilsonMar 31, 2022
“Antichrist” may have been chauvinistic in its own right, but at least was interesting to watch. Barbarians doesn’t provide much excitement at all. Read full review
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