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Cynical, ironic, and suffused with seductive natural lighting, Barry Lyndon is a complex character piece of a hapless man doomed by Georgian society.
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The wonderfully dry and witty narration is from Thackeray, delivered by Michael Horder. Feb 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The wonderfully dry and witty narration is from Thackeray, delivered by Michael Horder.
Michael Wilmington
There are few films so sumptuous that you almost require fabric swatches while watching -- peachy moiré silks, red brocades, eau de nil satins, lilac-grey velvets -- and that's just the menswear and the furniture. Jul 29, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
There are few films so sumptuous that you almost require fabric swatches while watching -- peachy moiré silks, red brocades, eau de nil satins, lilac-grey velvets -- and that's just the menswear and the furniture.
Kate Muir
The great director's least satisfying, most disconcerting film - and that's what makes it extraordinary. Jul 25, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The great director's least satisfying, most disconcerting film - and that's what makes it extraordinary.
Tom Huddleston
Its story of an 18th-century social climber, adapted from Thackeray, unfolds in Gainsborough-esque landscapes and in rooms lit either by milky-white sunshine or shimmering candle flames. Feb 5, 2009 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Its story of an 18th-century social climber, adapted from Thackeray, unfolds in Gainsborough-esque landscapes and in rooms lit either by milky-white sunshine or shimmering candle flames.
Edward Porter
One of cinema's most heartfelt and sustained (it runs over three hours), if cynical, visions of an individual's powerlessness. Jan 30, 2009 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
One of cinema's most heartfelt and sustained (it runs over three hours), if cynical, visions of an individual's powerlessness.
Wally Hammond
It's a work of technical brilliance and considerable beauty; the slow and deliberate pacing only serves to make Barry's adventures more fascinating. Jan 30, 2009 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It's a work of technical brilliance and considerable beauty; the slow and deliberate pacing only serves to make Barry's adventures more fascinating.
Wendy Ide
Barry Lyndon is like an excellent encyclopedia... It's boring and exhausting, and ends up being too long, almost ineffective. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 22, 2019 | Full Review…
Barry Lyndon is like an excellent encyclopedia... It's boring and exhausting, and ends up being too long, almost ineffective. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jesús Fernández Santos
Barry Lyndon is a deeply felt, sometimes brutally ironic, and always visually gorgeous summation of the wide breadth of human experience. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Barry Lyndon is a deeply felt, sometimes brutally ironic, and always visually gorgeous summation of the wide breadth of human experience.
James Kendrick
It's a stunning, sumptuous and sustained meditation on man's ultimate powerlessness. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It's a stunning, sumptuous and sustained meditation on man's ultimate powerlessness.
List Staff
Barry Lyndon is, despite its rigorous construction, also among Kubrick's more emotionally engaged films. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Barry Lyndon is, despite its rigorous construction, also among Kubrick's more emotionally engaged films.
Donald Clarke
...a maddeningly hit-and-miss drama that's all-too-often far more miss than it is hit. Apr 30, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
...a maddeningly hit-and-miss drama that's all-too-often far more miss than it is hit.
David Nusair
It just hangs there on the screen for three hours, a monument to Kubrick's patience and pedantry and rather laborious good taste, but signifying very little else. Apr 4, 2018 | Full Review…
It just hangs there on the screen for three hours, a monument to Kubrick's patience and pedantry and rather laborious good taste, but signifying very little else.
Michael Wood
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