Brother

Name: Brother
Genre: Drama
Released: August 4, 2023
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Aaron Pierre, Alsseny Camara, Delia Lisette Chambers, Evan Buliung, Inderjeet Bajwa

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: August 4, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Aaron Pierre, Alsseny Camara, Delia Lisette Chambers, Evan Buliung, Inderjeet Bajwa, Kiana Madeira, Lamar Johnson, Lovell Adams-Gray, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Michael Antwi

Summary: Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene.

Director: Clement Virgo

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 119 min

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RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

Aug 4, 2023

Brother is a portrait of Black youth pitted against forces beyond their control. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 4, 2023

This decades-spanning drama — a lyrical and probing adaptation of David Chariandy’s novel about two siblings coming of age under the care of their Trinadadian single mother in the suburbs of Toronto — is so unstuck in time and shot through with raw emotion that its clunkier moments tend to function like tender maps back to the heart of the matter. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Mark Kermode

Sep 17, 2023

Despite the background noise of police brutality, gang violence and financial peril, it is the altogether more intimate elements of Brother that drive the drama. Read full review

Brandon Yu

Aug 3, 2023

The ultimately sparse dramatic elements here feel more suited to a short film; in a feature-length production, they become too thin to support the big feelings and weighty themes the movie wants to leave us with. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Aug 8, 2023

There is power in the inescapable, in the dreaded endpoint of becoming news after a lifetime spent fearing it—mourning it. But despite its length and artistic competence, Brother’s lack of affecting specificity displays rather than embodys grief. Read full review

The Guardian Ryan Gilbey

Sep 14, 2023

Heavy with grief the film may be, but it’s always a beautiful mourning. Read full review

Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sep 6, 2023

Although he retains the sweep of the novel, Virgo struggles to replicate its observational texture and the tension is undone by an atmospheric vagueness, full of pregnant pauses that only stretch out the run-time. Read full review

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