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Barbarians

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United Kingdom · 2021
1h 30m
Director Charles Dorfman
Starring Tom Cullen, Inès Spiridonov, Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Genre Horror, Thriller

Adam and Eva, preparing to buy a fancy new home, host their friends Lucas and Chloe for a dinner party celebrating Adam's birthday. However, as the night goes on, secrets are revealed and tensions rise, until the dinner is interrupted by a home invasion.

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IndieWire by

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.

63

RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny

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.

75

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

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.

30

The New York Times by Lena Wilson

“Antichrist” may have been chauvinistic in its own right, but at least was interesting to watch. Barbarians doesn’t provide much excitement at all.

67

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

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.

60

Paste Magazine by Matt Donato

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.

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Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray

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.

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