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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This becomes Tobey Maguire's film to dominate, and I've never seen these dark depths in him before. Actors possess a great gift to surprise us, if they find the right material in their hands. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Brothers has the careful observation, measured pace and lived-in feeling of a good European film. Read full review

  • 75
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    It does take half the movie before the story --really kicks in. When it does, it'll knock the air out of you. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    In exploring the complicated nature of family bonds, Brothers is thought-provoking. The wounds inflicted by the cruelty of a troubled parent can prove as painful as battle scars. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    A smart, well-meaning project -- never quite pulls itself together. It has a vague, half-finished feeling, as if it had not figured out what it was trying to do. Which may amount to a kind of realism -- an accurate reflection of where we are in Afghanistan. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Justin Chang

    Though it renders a convincing portrait of fractured family life and boasts its share of powerfully acted moments, this schematic tale of two siblings, ripped apart by jealousy, misunderstanding and unshakable trauma, plays like a more polished but less effective twin to the 2005 Danish original. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Irish director Jim Sheridan, who has made his films in America in recent years, now delivers an American remake that hues closely to the original but loses some of its true grit. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Brothers isn't badly acted, but as directed by the increasingly impersonal Jim Sheridan, it's lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that piles on overwrought dramatic twists until it begins to creak under the weight of its presumed significance. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    This is a corny tale, told with both generous helpings of deli-sliced cheese and a brief stretch of chilling tumultuousness. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    Sheridan seems as conflicted as the Cahills about their virtues and failings. The underlying themes -- love, loyalty, decency, duty, honor, betrayal -- that screenwriter David Benioff will use to both bind and break this family seem to bedevil him more than inspire him this time out. Read full review

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