7/10 Five years after The New York Times broke that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused of varying degrees of sexual misconduct by dozens of women who had come to him for employment and used his wealth, power and reputation to systematically cover it up, a story that took decades to report and which set off an international reckoning with sexual assault mostly under the banner of the #metoo movement, it’s difficult to see whether or not the world has really changed. The revelation of the scale of abuse, the horrifying realization of old sexist jokes was shocking, but the way the reporting played out made it seem unlikely that any real change could result. Barbarian bores into this anxiety, the knowledge of the scope of abuse and the creeping, back-of-your-head understanding that nothing is going to change.
476 Barbary St., Brightmoor, Detroit- Tess Marshall (Gerogina Campbell) arrives at her Airbnb to discover it double-booked and Keith Toshko (Bill Skarsgård) already settled in. They arrange to share the house, but the next day, Marshall discovers an underground lair with evidence of human captivity.
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