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100Burns has created an endearing gathering of people we all know, and every one of them is so much fun that leaving the theater at the end elicits a touch of regret.
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88You don't have to be Catholic, or Irish, or even American, to "get it." Burns' language, despite originating on Long Island, is universal in appeal and meaning.
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75The movie brings into focus how rare religion and spirituality are in American films.
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60Solid, old-fashioned narrative moviemaking with just enough no-budget cachet to disguise its essential blandness.
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67The romantic troubles of three Irish-Catholic brothers on Long Island don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
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90Good old-fashioned virtues of three-dimensional characters, fine dialogue, recognizable life situations and meat-and-potatoes content.
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90One of the most enjoyable experiences of the year.
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80The women's characters are as well drawn as the men's in a splendidly acted film that captures the confusion of love in ways that are ardent, affecting and wonderfully funny.
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10If you want to waste a couple of hours, you can surely do much better looking elsewhere.
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75A clever, amiably low-key mix of family drama and romantic comedy.[18 August 1995, Friday, p.C]
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75This meaty Irish stew isn't arty or elliptical. It ought to connect with anyone who's survived sibling tension or romantic fence-sitting. [9 August 1995, Life, p.5D]
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63Respectable by the tube's standards, even a cut above dumbed-down Hollywood, but hardly the stuff of creative renewal.
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60This is, recognizably, an indie film, in the best sense of the term.
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It is a rare treat of a film.
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90While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.
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90This modest, enormously likable film, about love and temptation and ties that bind, is about brotherhood most of all. [9 August 1995, p.C9]
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80A smart marriage of modest technical ambition, sophisticated material, and a hang-loose presentation that belies the production's no-frills sacrifices.
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80It's old-fashioned filmmaking, and more people should do it.
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70It's not a profound film, but it is heartfelt, and Burns has done his best to keep it clear and emotionally direct.
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70This knowing, low-budget comedy will appeal to men, who'll recognize their behavior, but also to women, who'll see it as goosing the gander.