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  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary In the City of Brotherly Love, eight-year-old Peter Flood helplessly watches on as his little sister is killed by a neighbor’s reckless driving. Tormented with grief and resentment, his father finds revenge as the only solution, leaving lasting generational wounds. Thirty years later, Peter still wrestles with the guilt he feels over his...

Directed By: Jérémie Guez

Written By: Peter Dexter, Jérémie Guez

  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

Brothers By Blood

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the City of Brotherly Love, eight-year-old Peter Flood helplessly watches on as his little sister is killed by a neighbor’s reckless driving. Tormented with grief and resentment, his father finds revenge as the only solution, leaving lasting generational wounds. Thirty years later, Peter still wrestles with the guilt he feels over his...

Directed By: Jérémie Guez

Written By: Peter Dexter, Jérémie Guez

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
42
13% Positive
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50% Mixed
4 Reviews
38% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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50% Mixed
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38% Negative
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80
Feb 8, 2021
It may not break new ground when it comes to this genre, one involving betrayal and heavily-accented mob bosses and brotherly love, but when a familiar path is tread with such confidence, you just may want to take another stroll.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 21, 2021
It’s only Guez’s second film, although he’s written others (including the similarly genre-subverting zombie movie “The Night Eats the World”), and there’s enough promise here — especially on the performance front — to look forward to future projects.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 21, 2021
Visually drab, tonally flat, and with precious few sympathetic or relatable characters, Brothers by Blood reduces the high-minded concept of filial loyalty across multiple generations to a paint-by-numbers power play.
By Kim Hughes FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 21, 2021
The picture rarely makes that business much to look at, providing some kind of energy to offset the actor's appropriate reserve. It feels rather plodding as a result, failing to turn the boxer's conflicting loyalties into the stuff of crime-flick high drama.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 22, 2021
A superficial force eats at this movie from the inside, including the way that it’s a brawny script with nil visual grit, and a style that mostly announces itself with sporadic neo-noir lighting.
By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 19, 2021
There’s no suspense, no flow to the story, little pathos in the flashbacks and a lot of dead spots where the story stops cold. I like everybody on the screen here, just not in this movie — not in this cut of it anyway.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 21, 2021
Brothers by Blood is an incomprehensible, frustrating mess that barely touches on its narrative themes and completely wastes the talents of its actors.
By Mae Abdulbaki FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cheyenne Films, Killer Films, Brookstreet Pictures, Gapbusters, Shelter Prod, Halal Amsterdam, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), VOO, BE TV, Canal+, Ciné+, Orange Cinéma Séries, Wallimage, Taxshelter. be
Release Date Jan 22, 2021
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
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