The greatest and most unexpected pleasure of Fried Barry is the pure vein of sweetness that pulses beneath the surface.

| Apr 2, 2024

If you like your films depraved, sick and greasy, you'll love 'Fried Barry!' And luckily, I like my films depraved, sick, and greasy.

| Sep 14, 2021

This is one of the most unusual alien visitation films you'll ever watch. Especially if you don't give any thought to why the other-worldly presence was careless enough to pick Barry for its stopover on Earth.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 23, 2021

What he has created is certainly a gnarly dive into a maelstrom of darkness, but one is left wondering whether it actually achieves anything.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2021

You'll see a bit of everything in the ensuing hour and a half.

| Original Score: 3.5 / 5 | Jun 26, 2021

FRIED BARRY gets a yes vote from me. I think it's entertaining, slyly funny, and somewhat surreal. What the film achieves with a minimum of explication and the looks on human faces is really effective.

| Jun 11, 2021

Fried Barry takes great pains to alienate its viewers as quickly as possible.

| Jun 6, 2021

When the film enthusiastically embraces its cult-flick weirdness and grindhouse nastiness, it's at least repulsively watchable.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 3, 2021

What in the holy hell is going on here?

| May 26, 2021

On a visual level Fried Barry is hugely successful, with a rich and vivid palette working in tandem with the often dingy and dirty locales, which make for a fascinating visual juxtaposition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2021

a peculiar horror extravaganza, from South Africa

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2021

It has a really original premise, but I don't think much is done with it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 15, 2021

Loud and heavily stylised, this South African comedy thriller pounds to a metallic beat as it follows a loser on an insane odyssey.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2021

If you're not into grindhouse cinema or hallucinogenic like movies, Fried Barry is going to be a hard one to dive into; however, Green's performance alone is worth it.

| May 12, 2021

Kruger's debut feature is not for those looking for a calm and cohesive experience, but if a manic and disgusting joyride is more what you're after, Fried Barry is for you.

| May 11, 2021

Largely indescribable, not for the faint of heart, and for fans only...but there are really interesting moments in it.

| May 10, 2021

Cheap and not so cheerful, Fried Barry might be episodic in the extreme but it has spurts of brilliance, imagination and a real sense of risk taking. Dirty, lurid fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2021

For all it's rough edges, it shows enough raw talent that it is unlikely to be [Writer and director Ryan Kruger's] last.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 7, 2021

Its aspirations of being a thoughtful acid trip become a lost cause.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2021

Fried Barry is unabashedly its own thing: visually inventive, deliberately abrasive, and dreamlike in the most menacing way possible.

| May 7, 2021