Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
ThumbScore
👍 58%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 53%
(RT: 54%, MC: 52) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Gana Bayarsaikhan as The Girl
Is Waiting for the Barbarians good?
It's divisive. 58% audience score, estimated from 409 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 53%.
Overview
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate. Wikipedia ↗
