Until its devastating final scenes, the way “I Do Not Care” makes its points is discursive rather than dramatic.

A.O. Scott

The New York Times

At its core, Barbarians is about the failure of communication. (The subplot about Mariana’s affair is more important than it seems.) This places it into a long tradition of modernist responses to fascism that stretches back to Eugène Ionesco—though one still can’t shake the feeling that Jude is more interested in pointing out obvious ironies than in anything else.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

The A.V. Club

Radu Jude’s film is a bitterly comic essay on nationalist mythologies and historical amnesia.

Keith Watson

Slant Magazine