Barbarian

Like the best horrors, it's 'about' stuff -- gentrification, abuse, toxic masculinity, taking responsibility. There's also plenty of jump scares.

Barbarian is a timely depiction of youth anxiety toward a territorial older class and an older generation’s disdain for an entitled, aimless youth.

Barbarian serves up all the requisite thrills with panache, but it also provokes deeper, longer-lasting reflections.

A gleefully scary and inventive tale that’s full of disarming twists and #MeToo undertones.

For the most part, it’s one of the most bracingly effective chillers of the year.

Wildly unpredictable, Barbarian begins as a tale of awkward circumstance, before mutating into something intensely claustrophobic, satirically amusing, and in its best moments, both.

It’s long and silly, but Barbarian is wildly entertaining.

This is a smart, well-produced, and suspenseful horror film.

By the time to film ends you'll be worn out by it, but entirely satisfied.

The use of familiar horror film tropes and turning them on their head, and re-inventing the format of storytelling for the screen makes the experience of watching Zach Cregger's Barbarian exciting and even inspiring.