Click here to copy URL

Barbarians

2021

Charlie Dorfman

Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tom Cullen, Will Kemp ...

4.7

334

Thriller A dinner party in a country house that sees four friends come together for a birthday celebration. But as the night progresses secrets emerge and unsettling events begin to unfold around them.

	Media	Author	Review
		Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"[It] takes broad, nuance-free satirical swipes at white privilege, capitalistic excess, and toxic masculinity and its discontents with just enough verve, style, and thorny plot turns to keep the average horror fan engaged"
		Lena Wilson The New York Times	"'Antichrist' may have been chauvinistic in its own right, but at least it was interesting to watch. 'Barbarians' doesn’t provide much excitement at all."
		Mark Peikert IndieWire	"When it comes to exposing the whited sepulcher of modern life, 'Barbarians' can’t compete with the news."
		Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"A horror movie that aspires to stress you out early-Ben-Wheatley style, albeit under the direction of Charles Dorfman instead, doesn’t quite go to that obvious place (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"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."
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Dorfman adheres too closely to the imagery we’ve seen before, and the simplified story doesn’t contribute anything new to the conversation (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Cass Clarke CBR	"'Barbarians' examines toxic masculinity through the lens of a home invasion thriller that ultimately muddles its messaging."
		William Repass Slant	"Barbarians oscillates between smugness and apprehensiveness about the film that it’s trying to be (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"A corker of a good time to watch and rife with some juicy subtexts regarding class, British colonialism, and toxic masculinity"
		Matt Donato Paste Magazine	"Barbarians is burned by its missed opportunities (...) Barbarians simply isn’t that fascinating a tale of mealtime madness and one that never delivers intensely enough on its titular barbarism."
		John Serba Decider	"Here’s a tone, there’s a tone, here’s an idea, there’s a few more ideas. So much stuff here, but it just isn’t enough"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.