Barry
Long before he sought the presidency in Washington, D.C., he was a college kid in New York faced with judgmental and racist opinions all around him. The movie follows him as he tries to find his place in the world.
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2 October 1972, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
19 April 1968, Granada Hills, California, USA
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
16 April 1996, Miami, Florida, USA
23 July 1975, USA
1 February 1964, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
11 May 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 November 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
31 August 1959, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
5 December 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
9 January 1985
December 21, 2016
Gandhi's touch is generally light and he exploits the city's ethnic mosaic with great effectiveness in the supporting cast.
December 21, 2016
A sharp, well observed picture, one that's not just one president's story but also a sly examination of how race isn't always the major thing that divides us.
December 16, 2016
Barry is about someone trying - and often failing - to fuse to any group that will have him. He uses charm like a chisel. He's always hacking into people's armor to convince them he belongs
December 21, 2016
With what lies ahead, moreover, director Vikram Gandhi's modest biopic, Barry, a year in his life, provides a kind of comfort watching.
March 08, 2017
...thinking about Barry, the 1981-set film about a young Barack Obama as he arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University, I found myself thinking about a young Me in 1981, as I arrived in New York City to attend Columbia University...
December 29, 2016
These moments proceed like comic-book panels, each communicating a single point, with little nuance for us to discover.
December 21, 2016
Ashley Judd provides emotional depth as Barack's mother, and Jason Mitchell and Ellar Coltrane deliver stellar work as friends of Barry's who remind of us of the multiple worlds he inhabits -- and the multiple worlds he will have to navigate.
January 03, 2017
Solid bio envisions young Obama; lots of cursing.
December 21, 2016
To its credit, "Barry" never aims for profound statements about Obama. Instead, it presents an interesting portrait of someone navigating between cultures in a country that continues to insist on labeling.
December 16, 2016
What Barry most captures is an Obama struggling to find his identity and his place in the world, highly attuned to his surroundings.
December 21, 2016
It's a marvelous movie, made even more so by the time in which it's being released.
December 19, 2016
Much as with Southside With You, Barry is buoyed by its tremendous lead performer.
