Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) Film Review, a movie directed by Ciro Guerra, and starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

In Colombian director Ciro Guerra‘s drama about immigration and integration “Waiting for the Barbarians” Johnny Depp plays the ruthless Colonel Joll, a torturer who is in charge of the security ...

To say Crispian Sallis is renowned for his accurate portrayal of capturing history in a microcosm would be an understatement. Much of the co-production designer and set decorator's work was featured ...

With only four features under his belt, Ciro Guerra has already established himself as one of Colombia’s most important filmmakers and earned the country’s first-ever Oscar nod for 2015’s “Embrace of ...

It does seem that things will be quite difficult for the Magistrate, who is caught between his loyalty to the empire that he’s served his entire career and the barbaric things he’s watching unfold in ...

You expect fireworks when you cast Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson and Mark Rylance in a political allegory about a nameless empire that savagely exploits the indigenous people in its desert colony.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has nabbed the North American rights to 'Waiting for the Barbarians,' which stars Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson and is directed by Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra ...

For Johnny Depp, the horrors are moving to the movie screen. As the superstar's lurid libel case against Britain's The Sun newspaper comes to a close after weeks of startling revelations about his ...

There are a handful of novels said to be fundamentally unfilmable, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” “Lolita” and “Dune” among them. Many of them have, of course, been made into films anyway. I’d nominate ...

Waiting for the Barbarians is truth in advertising because this new film is so painfully paced it feels like an eternity while we are waiting for said Barbarians. Or actually anything to happen.