Bring Them Down
MUBI | Release Date: February 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithFeb 7, 2025
On a scene-to-scene basis, it’s an impressively taut film, but it left me wishing for a more compelling conclusion than “people are nasty to one another.” Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 25, 2024
The film brings us down, as well as letting itself down somewhat – a late scuffle in a peat bog is poorly motivated, the ending too vague. But the jangling escalations of the first half still mark Andrews out as a name to watch. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyOct 7, 2024
There are things to admire, but Bring Them Down is a hard film to like. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 24, 2024
For Andrews, Bring Them Down is a capable, intriguing debut, but it needs more depth than this revenge tale has to offer. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandSep 9, 2024
Mostly, though, it does only that: Shock. Basic, trite, and without any hope for anything better ever happening. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiam LaceyFeb 6, 2025
Thick with dank atmosphere and well-acted with a cast that includes Colm Meaney and Barry Keoghan, it’s a drama about angry men with mommy issues that starts with a slow burn and ends up to its ears in gore. Read full review
50
The PlaylistAnkit JhunjhunwalaSep 13, 2024
Bring Them Down is Chris Andrews’ debut feature as a writer and director after working in the camera department of several productions. He has a nice feel for the story’s setting and shows some facility filming action. A tighter handle on dramatic construction and character development would enhance his feature filmmaking ventures. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerSep 9, 2024
This violent first feature is carried more by leads Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan than by its dour storytelling. Read full review
50
TheWrapChase HutchinsonSep 9, 2024
You can practically see the more complicated layers of the two men through the eyes of the performers alone, but they’re both left staring at a story that almost stubbornly refuses to excavate them. Read full review
42
The Film StageChristopher SchobertSep 9, 2024
Bring Them Down is not a great film. It’s occasionally compelling thanks to its haunting, almost otherworldly locations in Ireland. Mainly, though, what stands out are performances of the ever-intense Christopher Abbott, Nora-Jane Noone, and, most notably, Barry Keoghan. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeFeb 4, 2025
When film-makers aren’t asking people to read their films as westerns they are asking for them to be read as Greek tragedies. For all the commitment of the actors and brooding ambience of the film-making, Bring Them Down can’t quite sustain that comparison. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 3, 2025
In plot terms there is something unsubtle, unconvincing and even absurd in where it’s all heading. Read full review
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