Agnes and His Brothers
First Run Features | Release Date: June 9, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Roehler mixes cheap sex humor, existential darkness, buffoonish satire and profound tenderness in almost classic proportions. Maybe this is too uneven to be a masterpiece, but it's somewhere close. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Roehler aims scattershot barbs at so many targets, from political hypocrisy to suburban entitlement, that he often misses. But whenever he takes the time to line up his toxic arrows, usually with the help of a compellingly squirmy Bleibtreu, he hits the bull's-eye. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's a slick, ambitious movie that doesn't always nail all the many moods and themes it's after. Read full review
50
VarietyJay Weissberg
A Teutonic version of "American Beauty" with added dysfunctionality. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous'' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The results isn't especially engaging, despite a quietly charismatic performance by Weiss, a relative newcomer who holds his own against far more experienced actors. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Dysfunctional families don't come much more messed up than the one in Agnes and His Brothers, a comic drama from Germany. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
This scathing study of middle-class angst plays like a cross between Buñuel and Almodovar, but the satire never achieves liftoff despite the actors' best efforts. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Oskar Roehler's serio-comedy Agnes And His Brothers tries to make some incisive points about the damage wrought by society's sexual hang-ups, but though Roehler throws three different characters at the subject, only one halfway sticks. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Aside from appreciating the movie's sturdy performances, my reaction to this satire of the middle-class, all-German family swung from revulsion to mystification. Read full review
20
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The title's pointedly incorrect pronoun is typical of the film's obtuse childishness. Read full review
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