Barbarians is sometimes a comedy of ill manners, sometimes an exhilarating thriller, but it’s also an amusingly clever and sometimes violent parable about venality, vulgarity and territoriality.

| Jun 29, 2022

We’ve reached the depressing stage of our society where taking the tiny step from rage into action no longer seems that big a leap. When it comes to exposing the whited sepulcher of modern life, Barbarians can’t compete with the news.

| Original Score: C | Apr 1, 2022

Charles Dorfman carries out his ultimately banal aims with commendable dispatch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2022

Although “Barbarians” doesn’t have much new to add to the home-invasion genre or much new to say about rich bullies who make even their friends miserable, it really connects for a good, long stretch at the start.

| Apr 1, 2022

I find the idea of a small man feeling emasculated by his thriving girlfriend tiresome enough in real life, and Dorfman, who also wrote the script, doesn’t manage to elevate it for the big screen.

| Mar 31, 2022

Framing the latest dinner party from hell scenario almost entirely through its flawed and oft frustrating characters means some of its satirical critiques get undeveloped and renders the horror impotent.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 30, 2022

Throughout, Barbarians oscillates between smugness and apprehensiveness about the film that its trying to be.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 29, 2022

Dorfman's debut feature is a corker of a good time to watch and rife with some juicy subtexts regarding class, British colonialism, and toxic masculinity.

| Jan 11, 2022

As secrets out, hallucinogens kick in and chaos reigns, civilised-seeming birthday boy Adam and those around him will discover divided Britain's barbarian side.

| Dec 8, 2021