Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece based on a William Makepeace Thackerey novel tells of an Irish man's efforts to promote himself in English society and about the only detail slightly out of place in over three hours of tightly-controlled, painstakingly and sumptuously staged painterly period drama is Ryan O'Neal as Redmond Barry Lyndon - it is just a fraction hard to believe such a gormless, self-interested meathead is able to command any attention at all let alone the sympathy, ire, or outrage he arouses in the women and society figures around him.
★★★★★
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