Barbarians

The director carries out his ultimately banal aims with commendable dispatch, and it’s always interesting to see Moreno play a character who’s not a living saint...

Granted, this is Dorfman’s directorial debut, and the web of slow-boil suspense that weaves itself throughout the majority of the movie left me hoping that Dorfman directs more genre films, and soon.

I’m torn on Barbarians, because while the film displays sharpened technical filmmaking chops, it’s an unbalanced invasion thriller caught between its subgenre intentions.