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Brothers McMullen, The
EMAILPRINTFox Searchlight Pictures
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 20 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Edward Burns
Directed by: Edward Burns
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 18, 1995
DVD: October 3, 2000
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and some sexuality
Starring Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone, Edward Burns, Connie Britton, and Maxine Bahns
An portrait of the lives and loves of three Irish-Catholic brothers living on Long Island.
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What The Critics Said
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...
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
One of the most enjoyable experiences of the year.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Good old-fashioned virtues of three-dimensional characters, fine dialogue, recognizable life situations and meat-and-potatoes content.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
This modest, enormously likable film, about love and temptation and ties that bind, is about brotherhood most of all. [9 August 1995, p.C9]
ReelViews James Berardinelli
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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ed Brubaker
It's old-fashioned filmmaking, and more people should do it.
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
A smart marriage of modest technical ambition, sophisticated material, and a hang-loose presentation that belies the production's no-frills sacrifices.
USA Today Mike Clark
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]
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie brings into focus how rare religion and spirituality are in American films.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A clever, amiably low-key mix of family drama and romantic comedy.[18 August 1995, Friday, p.C]
Film.com John Hartl
It's not a profound film, but it is heartfelt, and Burns has done his best to keep it clear and emotionally direct.
Washington Post Rita Kempley
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The romantic troubles of three Irish-Catholic brothers on Long Island don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Respectable by the tube's standards, even a cut above dumbed-down Hollywood, but hardly the stuff of creative renewal.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (not credited)
Solid, old-fashioned narrative moviemaking with just enough no-budget cachet to disguise its essential blandness.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Anne Harris
This is, recognizably, an indie film, in the best sense of the term.
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you want to waste a couple of hours, you can surely do much better looking elsewhere.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Seamus M. gave it an8:
Burns captures the moral conflict felt by Irish-American males in this delightful treat of a movie. I wonder if this movie were about 3 Jewish brothers, would Lisa Shwarzbaum and the other 'baum', John Rosenbaum feel a little differently?
Kevin V. gave it a10:
Wonderful and realistic...this is what indie is meant to be!
