| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Burns 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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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
One of the most enjoyable experiences of the year.
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| 90 |
Variety
Good old-fashioned virtues of three-dimensional characters, fine dialogue, recognizable life situations and meat-and-potatoes content.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
This 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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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Alison Macor
It is a rare treat of a film.
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| 88 |
ReelViews
You 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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| 80 |
Film.com
Ed Brubaker
It's old-fashioned filmmaking, and more people should do it.
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| 80 |
Rolling Stone
The 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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| 80 |
Film.com
A 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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| 75 |
USA Today
This 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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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie brings into focus how rare religion and spirituality are in American films.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
A clever, amiably low-key mix of family drama and romantic comedy.[18 August 1995, Friday, p.C]
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| 70 |
Film.com
It'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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| 70 |
Washington Post
This 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.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
The 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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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Respectable by the tube's standards, even a cut above dumbed-down Hollywood, but hardly the stuff of creative renewal.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Staff (not credited)
Solid, old-fashioned narrative moviemaking with just enough no-budget cachet to disguise its essential blandness.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
Anne Harris
This is, recognizably, an indie film, in the best sense of the term.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
If you want to waste a couple of hours, you can surely do much better looking elsewhere.
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