The datedness of the novel’s politics are swallowed by Guerra, who stages scenes with a typical stillness that, filled with croaky theatrical performances, becomes a non-style worthy of bad prestige 온라인카지노추천.

| Feb 8, 2024

a brutally honest allegory of the war, with an exceptional Mark Rylance as the last kind man in an inhumane colonial empire.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2023

Waiting for the Barbarians calls forth the spirit of '60s and '70s political cinema, when the seventh art began to criticize imperialism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 3, 2023

It’ll be too broad and figurative for some, but I loved its willingness to trust the viewer. And the near apocalyptic final shot only adds to the title’s richness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The director's obvious skill behind the camera is deflated by a script more interested in teaching lessons than conveying emotion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

It's an impaired parable that still stirs some reaction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2021

Ciro Guerra's Waiting for the Barbarians is a remarkable work that outrages one, and ought to outrage one.

| Feb 10, 2021

The story that all this luscious style is in service to is really not all that great.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Rylance gifts Waiting for the Barbarians with an undeniably earnest performance, but it's not quite enough to lift it above derivative mediocrity.

| Dec 11, 2020

There's not much here for even the most ardent fan of overdetermined political fables.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2020

The film is an anti-Rudyard Kipling story that wants to tear down the Empire-loving writer's romanticised notions of non-Western cultures, but does not quite know how.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2020

It takes me to the limits of apathy when Guerra uselessly repeats the usual themes of his catalog such as oppression, injustice and the barbaric effects of colonialism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 19, 2020

This film belongs consumingly to Mark Rylance, arguably the world's greatest actor of stage and screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2020

Unflinchingly and sadistically violent, Guerra's film packs all the widescreen beauty of David Lean's epics... but with unbearable sadism at its core, as order breaks inexorably down.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2020

This all unfolds in glacial style, with Rylance ambling about quietly in amiable confusion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2020

Rylance's quietly understated performance is sincere and moving...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2020

Without JM Coetzee's prose to round it out, this film of his 1980 novel confronts us too bluntly with the story's didacticism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2020

The book, with its themes of paranoia and totalitarianism, was acclaimed as a masterpiece. But the film, which also stars Robert Pattinson and was adapted by Coetzee himself, doesn't quite work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2020

Its declarations are too easy, its conclusions too neat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2020

Waiting For The Barbarians is a slow burn of a film that gets distracted by the social commentary and the story suffers.

| Sep 10, 2020