Brother
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: August 4, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonAug 4, 2023
Brother is a portrait of Black youth pitted against forces beyond their control. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 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
80
The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeSep 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
70
Little White LiesIsabelle GrayOct 25, 2023
Aside from well-trodden social politics, Brother’s examination of the myriad ways we respond to grief is what sets it apart from other films that delineate the Black experience. Read full review
60
The GuardianRyan GilbeySep 14, 2023
Heavy with grief the film may be, but it’s always a beautiful mourning. Read full review
60
Time OutSophie Monks KaufmanSep 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
60
Paste MagazineJacob OllerAug 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
60
The New York TimesBrandon YuAug 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
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