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- 10:33 AM, Apr 25
this portrait of the soldier as an old man is deeply movingby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
There is a far better contemporary UK Western than this, with antagonists that have a shred of humanity and without awkward social commentary: Shane Meadows's Dead Man Shoesby Simon Reynolds [Digital Spy ]
The hard stuffby Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]
Revenge thriller that's a guilty pleasureby Chris Tookey [Daily Mail ]
Part punk-drab British art-house portrait of underclass despair, part bloody vigilante pic, Harry Brown is shakily held together by industrial-strength sound design and the expertly employed theatrics of Michael Caine in the title roleReview rate : C+ by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
Harry Brown is one of the most gorgeous-looking British films of the decadeby Kevin Maher [Times Online ]
Harry Brown is at its best at its midway point, the Loach/Love cuspby Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
for all the gruesome death scattered around, the movie really has social ills in its sightsby Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]
Essential stuff, even by the big man's considerable standardsby Mark Dinning [Empire Magazine ]
Either track would have roused at least a little fascination, but the lugubrious Harry Brown assures the audience that any intellectual stimulation can be dwarfed by the image of a teenager having his head blown offby Chris Cabin [Filmcritic.com ]
Daniel Barber's luridly brutal debut goes quickly way over the topby Tim Robey [Daily Telegraph ]
a film that's about as intellectually and emotionally hardy as a pile of barbecued dog turdsby Simon Abrams [Slant Magazine ]