I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Beta Cinema | Release Date: July 19, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The Film StageRory O'ConnorJul 25, 2019
Much like his beleaguered lead character, Jude manages to maintain a rousingly lewd sense of humor for the duration of the film’s substantial running time. Read full review
90
Screen DailyDemetrios MatheouJul 25, 2019
A dazzlingly dialectical and daring comedy/drama that skilfully brings past and present together and again challenges Jude’s compatriots to face up to the more unsavoury aspects of their history. Read full review
90
VarietyJessica KiangJul 25, 2019
Of viciously pointed relevance anywhere populism is on the rise, “Barbarians” is a fiercely intelligent, engaging and challenging wake-up call, a film that leaves you smarter at the end than when you went in, but also sadder and significantly more terrified. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 25, 2019
The difficulty of turning mass spectacle into moral edification, of getting the public to think and care about history in ways that go beyond simple-minded patriotism, is a problem that this brilliantly multifaceted picture both critiques and embodies. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonJul 16, 2019
Radu Jude’s film is a bitterly comic essay on nationalist mythologies and historical amnesia. Read full review
83
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodJul 25, 2019
The film’s title isn’t just referring to the past, but what everyone involved witnesses in their communities everyday. By letting this fester and not confronting it dead on are we not saying we’re fine with being “barbarians’? It’s a credible question the filmmaker leaves you to ponder in private. Read full review
80
CineVueBen NicholsonJul 25, 2019
The result is a formally loose, but dizzyingly dense and morally forthright examination of national attitudes and the myopia of nostalgia told through ranging meta-constructs and highfalutin debate. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonJul 25, 2019
I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians is a mature, ambitious work from a spirited auteur who has mastered the cinematic rules well enough to break them with confidence. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJul 18, 2019
Until its devastating final scenes, the way “I Do Not Care” makes its points is discursive rather than dramatic. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJul 17, 2019
At its core, Barbarians is about the failure of communication. (The subplot about Mariana’s affair is more important than it seems.) This places it into a long tradition of modernist responses to fascism that stretches back to Eugène Ionesco—though one still can’t shake the feeling that Jude is more interested in pointing out obvious ironies than in anything else. Read full review
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