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88
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83
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60
Under Our Skin
69
Unmistaken Child
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
22
What Goes Up
45
Whatever Works
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
88
Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
Revanche
83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
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O'Horten
77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
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74
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74
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74
Two Lovers
74
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74
Lemon Tree
71
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71
Jerichow
70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
End of the Line, The
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
Unmistaken Child
67
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67
Rudo y Cursi
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
66
Adoration
66
Moon
65
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65
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64
Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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63
Great Buck Howard, The
62
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62
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62
Not Forgotten
61
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60
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59
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58
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58
Easy Virtue
57
Away We Go
57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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52
Quiet Chaos
50
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48
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45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
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40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
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16
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xx
Call of the Wild
xx
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xx
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Four Brothers
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence, pervasive language and some sexual content
Starring
Mark Wahlberg,
Tyrese,
André 3000,
Garrett Hedlund,
Terrence Dashon Howard,
Josh Charles,
Sofía Vergara,
and
Fionnula Flanagan
After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store holdup, the Mercer brothers -- hotheaded Bobby (Wahlberg), hard-edged Angel (Gibson), family man and businessman Jeremiah (Benjamin) and hard rocking Jack (Hedlund) -- reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands. As they track down the killer, the four brothers come together to discover that they are bound by ties thicker than blood. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Crime
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
David Elliot
Paul Lovett
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| DIRECTED BY: |
John Singleton
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 20, 2005
Video: December 20, 2005
Theatrical: August 12, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Four Brothers works as an urban thriller, if not precisely as a model of logic.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
Preposterous yet solidly entertaining.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
If you can overcome the graphic nature of its casual violence, it is a lot of fun. The banter among the brothers is well-written and has a genuine fraternal feel to it. And the chases and shootouts have a fresh malevolence to them.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Wahlberg, whose Bobby is the kind of guy who enters a room gun first, swinging a can of a gasoline, is the glue that holds everything together; he's perfectly cast and has never given a more persuasive performance.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Gripping: Even when it wobbles off-track, it has some juice to it.

70
Variety
Joe Leydon
With equal measures of rock-the-house vigor and in-your-face attitude, Four Brothers proves usually potent and consistently enjoyable as an old school approach to what might best be described as the urban-Western genre of slam-bang, balls-out action-revenger.

70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
It's a finely tuned Motor City engine: The action, including a nighttime car chase through a blinding snowstorm, is fast, brutal and efficient; the Motown soundtrack never cuts out; and as a gangster called Sweet, the British-Nigerian actor Chiwetel Ejiofor gives an electrifying performance.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Proficiently made trash.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Easily the best 1975 B-movie made in 2005, Four Brothers is a raucously entertaining vigilante film.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
What holds us are the actors, including Terrence Howard as a cop who grew up with the brothers.

63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
True, John Ford and John Wayne did this stuff a lot better back in the day, but they're not around anymore. John Singleton is, and it's nice to see someone caring enough to keep the tradition alive.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A faux-low-budget revenge thriller, pure and simple. There's nothing special about it, and that's what's refreshing.

60
Empire
Nick De Semlyen
Heavy-handed in places and bad news for the Detroit Tourist Commission, this is still a slick, fun ensemble piece and a step back in the right direction for Singleton.

60
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
It’s more than adequate as an old school action movie slightly updated for modern audiences.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A typically energetic urban action melodrama, offering car chases, beatings, murders, a dog mauling, attempted arson, frequent double-crosses and pitched street battles worthy of Fallouja.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The casting is hit-and-miss. OutKast's Benjamin and "Troy's" Hedlund are weak, but Gibson is very appealing and the movie powers along on a strong lead performance by Wahlberg, who has never seemed more confident, commanding or scruffily charismatic.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Four Brothers immediately joins the Good Idea, Bad Execution club. Hardly anyone seems to care about its believability - not director John Singleton, writers David Elliott and Paul Lovett or some lackadaisical actors.

50
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
The movie's not great, but Mom might like it.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
For all its well-drawn lines between good and evil, Four Brothers is ultimately passive entertainment.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
If you take any of this seriously, you are not going to enjoy the movie very much. But as an absurd riff on baadasssss gangsta movies, Four Brothers has an undeniable visceral kick.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
What results is unremarkably schizophrenic--half gritty sojourn into the inner-city furnace, half Hollywood brain death.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
More action directors should include scenes such as the Mercers' extended Thanksgiving dinner, which fleshes out the bond between the brothers without using too many words.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
This is the kind of scrappy Seventies-throwback B-movie that fits the bill when you desperately need to see regular-seeming, occasionally inept people rise up against our corrupt criminal oppressors and cudgel them with pool cues and bits of blasted-off brick.

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Loud, stupid, unrealistic, overdone, without a thought in its ugly little head and kind of enjoyable.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Atmospheric, propulsive and ultimately preposterous melodrama.

38
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Singleton's sloppiest, laziest movie to date, springing to life in fits and starts, risibly mawkish and occasionally gripping, and often feeling like it was made up on the set.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jason Anderson
The director's approach is far too ham-fisted and erratic to bring Four Brothers up to the level of enjoyable trash -- it's too crummy to earn that distinction.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Because the script, riddled with verbal ugliness by David Elliot and Paul Lovett, sends the movie to a series of arbitrary nowheres, the final showdown for the Mercer boys and their enemies is just as meaningless and sense-deadening.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Four Brothers regresses into gallows comedy, rampant misogyny, and one preposterous Hollywood action setpiece after another.

20
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
A career low for Mark Wahlberg and director John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood), this ridiculous mean-streets adventure starts out like a Hell's Kitchen melodrama from the 30s and eventually spins off into a series of gunfights, beat downs, and trite Motown numbers.

12
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Four Brothers? Ringling Brothers is more like it, because John Singleton's latest stinks like something the elephants left behind. It's not clear what the film is trying to do, but it seems safe to guess that it's doing it wrong.


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