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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.
11 June 1992, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
7 December 1997, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
1 February 1964, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
27 August 1994, Austin, Texas, USA
11 May 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 July 1975, USA
5 December 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
9 January 1989, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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
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 19, 2016
Much as with Southside With You, Barry is buoyed by its tremendous lead performer.
December 21, 2016
It's a marvelous movie, made even more so by the time in which it's being released.
December 21, 2016
Gandhi's touch is generally light and he exploits the city's ethnic mosaic with great effectiveness in the supporting cast.
January 03, 2017
Solid bio envisions young Obama; lots of cursing.
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 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.
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.
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 29, 2016
These moments proceed like comic-book panels, each communicating a single point, with little nuance for us to discover.
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...

