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Admirable in theory but disappointing in execution, Waiting for the Barbarians struggles to turn strong performances and worthy themes into affecting drama.
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Its declarations are too easy, its conclusions too neat. September 11, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Its declarations are too easy, its conclusions too neat.
Clarisse Loughrey
The screenplay is written by J.M. Coetzee, adapting his own 1980 novel with a strikingly free hand but the message left intact - the eternal awful irony of which Them should really fear which Us. September 2, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The screenplay is written by J.M. Coetzee, adapting his own 1980 novel with a strikingly free hand but the message left intact - the eternal awful irony of which Them should really fear which Us.
Danny Leigh
It's a mixed bag, but worth seeing... The main reason to see it is for Mark Rylance's performance. August 18, 2020 | Full Review…
It's a mixed bag, but worth seeing... The main reason to see it is for Mark Rylance's performance.
Peter Rainer
The heavy-handed allegory, with Johnny Depp as a ruthless government agent, relies too much on abuse and would-be Big Ideas. August 11, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The heavy-handed allegory, with Johnny Depp as a ruthless government agent, relies too much on abuse and would-be Big Ideas.
Richard Roeper
This is proficient, measured filmmaking from a director who has already peered more deeply, and persuasively, into colonialism's heart of darkness. August 10, 2020 | Full Review…
This is proficient, measured filmmaking from a director who has already peered more deeply, and persuasively, into colonialism's heart of darkness.
Justin Chang
Despite its nostalgic trappings, the film, Colombian director Ciro Guerra's English-language debut, soon reveals itself as timely in the extreme: This is a parable of the good cop. August 7, 2020 | Full Review…
Despite its nostalgic trappings, the film, Colombian director Ciro Guerra's English-language debut, soon reveals itself as timely in the extreme: This is a parable of the good cop.
Lidija Haas
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. September 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Andrew Collins
This all unfolds in glacial style, with Rylance ambling about quietly in amiable confusion. September 15, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This all unfolds in glacial style, with Rylance ambling about quietly in amiable confusion.
Tom Beasley
Rylance's quietly understated performance is sincere and moving... September 15, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Rylance's quietly understated performance is sincere and moving...
Alexa Dalby
Without JM Coetzee's prose to round it out, this film of his 1980 novel confronts us too bluntly with the story's didacticism. September 13, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Without JM Coetzee's prose to round it out, this film of his 1980 novel confronts us too bluntly with the story's didacticism.
Edward Porter
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. September 12, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Brian Viner
Waiting For The Barbarians is a slow burn of a film that gets distracted by the social commentary and the story suffers. September 10, 2020 | Full Review…
Waiting For The Barbarians is a slow burn of a film that gets distracted by the social commentary and the story suffers.
Rosalynn Try-Hane
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