Barry Lyndon

9 Ratings: 4.1

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Cast: Philip Stone, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne, Leonard Rossiter, George Sewell, Godfrey Quigley, Liam Redmond, see all

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genre: Drama

Release Date: December 18, 1975

MPAA Rating: PG

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review by Captain_Couth. April 23, 2009

Stanley Kubrick's best film and one of the greatest ever made.

Barry Lyndon has to be Stanley Kubrick's most realized project that he has ever taken. A big task for the maverick director. For a film like this to be made during the free wheeling seventies had to take some big stones. One must admire Mr. Kubrick for even trying to produce and direct such a complex and expensive film that had all the ear markings of a financial and personal disaster. Not only did Kubrick manage to out do his last epic "2001" but he has created a movie that not only showcases the … more

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review by NicanorJourney. October 17, 2008

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Another Kubrick film that manages to leave a visual impression

Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is a spectacle, full of luscious visuals, extraordinary costumes, and a very aggressive underlying theme of cheating, and losing at life. This is not a contender for Kubrick's top five films of all time, and for good reason, but regardless, this film put me in a trance from beginning to end. I had not read William Makepeace Thackeray's novel beforehand, so I honestly cannot add to the discussion of whether or not this is a proper adaptation, or if O'Neal's performance … more

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