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Review: A superb Rylance lifts up languorous 'Barbarians'

by AP National Writer
| August 7, 2020 12:03 AM

Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Waiting for the Barbarians," I absent-mindedly jotted down in my notes: “Nobody does basic decency like Mark Rylance.”

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