Harry Brown Reviews

Movie Reviews

• this portrait of the soldier as an old man is deeply moving

  by 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 Shoes

  by Simon Reynolds [Digital Spy ]

• The hard stuff

  by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]

• Revenge thriller that's a guilty pleasure

  by 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 role

  Review rate : C+ by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• Harry Brown is one of the most gorgeous-looking British films of the decade

  by Kevin Maher [Times Online ]

• Harry Brown is at its best at its midway point, the Loach/Love cusp

  by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]

• for all the gruesome death scattered around, the movie really has social ills in its sights

  by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]

• Essential stuff, even by the big man's considerable standards

  by 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 off

  by Chris Cabin [Filmcritic.com ]

• Daniel Barber's luridly brutal debut goes quickly way over the top

  by Tim Robey [Daily Telegraph ]

• a film that's about as intellectually and emotionally hardy as a pile of barbecued dog turds

  by Simon Abrams [Slant Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Ella Taylor [Village Voice ]

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