Redoubt
Grasshopper Films | Release Date: October 30, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 30, 2019
Redoubt reaches for intimations and apprehensions of the cosmic. Read full review
80
Time OutMatthew SingerMar 27, 2026
Inspired by true events, it’s a story of fruitless obsession ​that Werner Herzog must be kicking himself for not discovering first. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownNov 1, 2019
Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJan 23, 2020
Redoubt is slow going but not uninvolving. Barney’s filmmaking is less about the manipulation of image, or the roiling power of editing to create emotional states, than it is about dutifully documenting what he’s created, what he’s seeing, what’s on his mind. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 31, 2019
If it all made sense, would it still be art? Ironically, the trouble with Redoubt is that it’s not obtuse enough. It’s the first Barney film audiences won’t have trouble sleeping after — or through. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 30, 2019
It seems as though the artist, all too aware of his reputation for both pageantry and shock value, has decided to offer nothing of the kind. Read full review
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