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- The website's critics consensus reads: "Admirable in theory but disappointing in execution, Waiting for the Barbarians struggles to turn strong performances and worthy themes into affecting drama." On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 52 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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Aug 7, 2020 · Waiting for the Barbarians. 114 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2020. Nick Allen. August 7, 2020. 6 min read. Mark Rylance had an easier time making us believe he was the 24-feet-tall “BFG” than he does here, trying to sell us a colonizer with a conscience in Ciro Guerra’s tedious “Waiting for the Barbarians.”. The gentle actor plays a man here ...
Waiting for the Barbarians review: a vital portrait of an empire in decline. Morality, and society itself, crumbles in Ciro Guerra’s English-language debut, a stunningly shot, allegorical film featuring a powerful lead performance by Mark Rylance.
Sep 10, 2020 · Dir: Ciro Guerra. Starring: Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi. 15 cert, 113 mins. Waiting for the Barbarians is the most sweeping of director...
- Clarisse Loughrey
Aug 7, 2020 · The Magistrate (Mark Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border.
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- Mark Rylance
- Ciro Guerra
Aug 6, 2020 · ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review: An Aestheticized Fable of Colonialism. Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson star in this Ciro Guerra film adapted from a J.M. Coetzee novel. Share...
- Ciro Guerra
Feb 8, 2024 Full Review Serena Seghedoni Loud and Clear Reviews a brutally honest allegory of the war, with an exceptional Mark Rylance as the last kind man in an inhumane colonial empire.
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- History, Drama
Jan 23, 2020 · Waiting for the Barbarians – adapted by J.M. Coetzee from his own 1980 novel – is a chilling indictment of colonial tyranny and casts its own shocking and exquisite spell. The addition of the Mongolian actress Gana Bayarsaikhan – as a nomad both crippled and partly blinded by Joll’s troops – goes some way to redress the balance and ...
