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rogerebert.com
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"[4th Season Review]: It's hardly the original premise, but it's hard to think of a show that explores it with as deft and devilish a hand as 'Barry'" |
POS
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IndieWire
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"[4th Season Review]: A show able to look beyond what happens and enjoy how it happens —whether that's how it's plotted, how it's shot, or how it's performed" |
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TV Guide
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"[4th Season Review]: The series careens unpredictably toward an incredibly satisfying end" |
POS
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Rolling Stone
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"[4th Season Review]: [This] comedy continues to serve up its unique cocktail of thrills and laugh in its fourth and final season" |
POS
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Variety
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"[4th Season Review]: it may be unable to acknowledge his own failings, but as it prepares to exit stage left, 'Barry' knows exactly what it is" |
POS
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Entertainment Weekly
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"[4th Season Review]: a bleak and brilliant final season (...) [It] aims straight for the soul in its final season" |
POS
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United States |
Chicago Tribune
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"[4th Season Review]: The show’s co-creators Alec Berg and Bill Hader keep us guessing while exploring a larger, tantalizing theme (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Radio Times
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"[4th Season Review]: If you're not watching this show, you're a fool (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Paste Magazine
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"[4th Season Review]: But if this is ['Barry']'s end, it's the beginning for director Bill Hader. His creative stamp is pervasive" |
POS
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United States |
The Playlist
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"[4th Season Review]: Give it time. Actually, give this whole season time. It deserves it. And it works at a slightly different pace" |
POS
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Canada |
The Globe and Mail
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"[4th Season Review]: 'Barry' solidifies [Hader] as one of the most creative, well-versed actor/writer/directors in the business. But it also redefines the entire dramedy concept, proving just how deliciously dramatic the half-hour format can be" |
POS
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United States |
Vulture
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"[4th Season Review]: Describing any of this as a 'comedy', dark or not, might be ['Barry']'s funniest final joke" |
NEG
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United States |
The Wrap
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"[4th Season Review]: Hader and company have laid the foundation for an existential reckoning of epic human proportions" |
POS
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United States |
Mashable
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"[4th Season Review]: Hader and Alec Berg fully embrace the darkness of 'dark comedy' in a way that even the previous seasons haven't, delivering a relentless set of episodes" |
POS
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United States |
SlashFilm
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"[4th Season Review]: The final season goes out with a bang" |
POS
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"[4th Season Review]: [it] wraps with its most thrilling and ambitious moves yet" |
POS
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United States |
IGN
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"[2nd Season Review]: Bill Hader hits the spot in season 4" |
POS
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Australia |
The Age
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"[4th Season Review]: An immense juggling act, true to the spirit of Hader and Alec Berg's black comedy, but also looking to shear away the comfortable and the familiar (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Collider
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"[4th Season Review]: There's really nothing else out there like 'Barry', and, now that it's ending, who knows if there ever will be again?" |
POS
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Canada |
Screen Rant
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"[4th Season Review]: In its stellar final season, 'Barry' ruminates on the ripple effects the need for redemption has while walking a tightrope of comedy and brutality" |
POS
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United States |
Vanity Fair
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"[4th Season Review]: The plot is constructed as a mesmerizing Rube Goldberg machine, a bloody sequence of cause and effect that makes nihilism engaging" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Empire
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"[4th Season Review]: The struggle for Barry's soul that unfolds in Season 4 will be remembered as some of the best TV of 2023: nerve-shredding, hilarious and emotionally devastating to the very end (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[3rd Season Review]: attention to detail — the performances, the direction, the awareness, the comedy, the sense of purpose — all come together to make 'Barry' great." |
POS
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United States |
Collider
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"[3rd Season Review]: 'Barry' has never been better (...) in Season 3, the show has fully outgrown its cutesy premise to become one of TV's best thrill rides." |
POS
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United States |
Paste Magazine
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"[3rd Season Review]: a refreshing reintroduction to a very strange and wonderfully engrossing story" |
POS
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United States |
Variety
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"[3rd Season Review]: Season 3 is a masterpiece about what it means to forgive, and to be unforgiven (...) a pleasing reward for fans who’ve waited nearly three years for more of this story" |
POS
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United States |
The Playlist
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"[3rd Season Review]: The main theme of the brilliant third season can be summarized in that exchange: second chances, and how people are led to believe that it’s up to them when they get to take them." |
POS
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"[2nd Season Review]: The season premiere opens with one of the funniest action scenes I’ve ever seen (...) Our hero’s damned himself, and the results are damned funny" |
POS
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United States |
IndieWire
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"[2nd Season Review]: [It] is an inconceivable success — getting even darker in Season 2, without losing its sharp comedic wit. (...) It’s really, really good. Get ready." |
POS
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"[2nd Season Review]: [It] has become something different and something that's largely unfunny, it's a caution and not a criticism (...) So far we're on the safe side and there's much to be impressed by in Barry and its shifting identity" |
POS
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United States |
Den of Geek
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"[2nd Season Review]: 'Barry' resets the table effortlessly, introducing new threats and shades to characters while still having a masterful hold over the show’s disparate tone (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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Canada |
Screen Rant
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"[2nd Season Review]: Though 'Barry' deserves a considerable amount of praise for being a worthwhile comedy that’s also as bleak as anything else on television, it deserves even more for steering away from cliches" |
POS
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United States |
AV Club
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"[2nd Season Review]: 'Barry' returns from the brink funnier and darker than ever before" |
POS
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"Wrings uniqueness from chaos (...) Here's hoping this series does make it to a second season, because after its first full season, 'Barry' has become one of the bigger creative surprises on television." |
POS
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United States |
Boston Globe
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"Excellent (...) I laughed out loud a number of times while watching the eight episodes of the first season (...) It balances all the Hollywood satire, character comedy, and noir tendencies beautifully" |
POS
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United States |
SFGATE
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"Hader is terrific (...) The show benefits from superb writing (...) Overall, as a TV comedy, 'Barry' kills." |
POS
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United States |
Variety
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"'Barry' — a wry and sometimes successful attempt to blend elements of 'Breaking Bad' and 'BoJack Horseman' — ends up being a solid showcase for not just the extended cast but Hader himself." |
POS
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United States |
Slant
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"Barry's desperate need to leave his past behind is the show's engrossing emotional through line (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" |
POS
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United States |
IndieWire
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"Bill Hader’s excellent HBO comedy is incredibly funny for how dark It gets (...) [It] shifts from comedy to drama convincingly" |
POS
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