Brothers By Blood

Name: Brothers By Blood
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: January 22, 2021
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Antoni Corone, Carlos Schram, Craig DiFrancia, Felix Scott, James Nelson-Joyce

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: January 22, 2021 | R

Starring: Antoni Corone, Carlos Schram, Craig DiFrancia, Felix Scott, James Nelson-Joyce, Joel Kinnaman, Maika Monroe, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael McFadden, Nicholas Crovetti, Nigel Barber, Paul Schneider, Ryan Phillippe, Tim Ahern

Summary: In the City of Brotherly Love, eight-year-old Peter Flood helplessly watches on as his little sister is killed by a neighbor’s reckless driving. Tormented with grief and resentment, his father finds revenge as the only solution, leaving lasting generational wounds. Thirty years later, Peter still wrestles with the guilt he feels over hisIn the City of Brotherly Love, eight-year-old Peter Flood helplessly watches on as his little sister is killed by a neighbor’s reckless driving. Tormented with grief and resentment, his father finds revenge as the only solution, leaving lasting generational wounds. Thirty years later, Peter still wrestles with the guilt he feels over his sister’s death and his father’s vengeance. As he tries to distance himself from the criminal family business, his cousin, Michael, becomes more powerful in the hierarchy. Bonded by blood, neither man can escape violence as they are dragged further into a chilling cycle of betrayal and retribution.… Expand

Director: Jérémie Guez

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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Alex Saveliev

Feb 8, 2021

It may not break new ground when it comes to this genre, one involving betrayal and heavily-accented mob bosses and brotherly love, but when a familiar path is tread with such confidence, you just may want to take another stroll. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jan 21, 2021

It’s only Guez’s second film, although he’s written others (including the similarly genre-subverting zombie movie “The Night Eats the World”), and there’s enough promise here — especially on the performance front — to look forward to future projects. Read full review

Kim Hughes

Apr 21, 2021

Visually drab, tonally flat, and with precious few sympathetic or relatable characters, Brothers by Blood reduces the high-minded concept of filial loyalty across multiple generations to a paint-by-numbers power play. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 21, 2021

The picture rarely makes that business much to look at, providing some kind of energy to offset the actor's appropriate reserve. It feels rather plodding as a result, failing to turn the boxer's conflicting loyalties into the stuff of crime-flick high drama. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Jan 22, 2021

A superficial force eats at this movie from the inside, including the way that it’s a brawny script with nil visual grit, and a style that mostly announces itself with sporadic neo-noir lighting. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 19, 2021

There’s no suspense, no flow to the story, little pathos in the flashbacks and a lot of dead spots where the story stops cold. I like everybody on the screen here, just not in this movie — not in this cut of it anyway. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Jan 21, 2021

Brothers by Blood is an incomprehensible, frustrating mess that barely touches on its narrative themes and completely wastes the talents of its actors. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Feb 5, 2021

With Matthias Schoenaerts and Joel Kinnaman doing the leading duo, I really hoped for something way more stimulating, but the script forgot to create an engaging story, and more than anything it forgot to create characters that have even the minimum of plot development.

While the tone isWith Matthias Schoenaerts and Joel Kinnaman doing the leading duo, I really hoped for something way more stimulating, but the script forgot to create an engaging story, and more than anything it forgot to create characters that have even the minimum of plot development.

While the tone is focused on being implicit with the dense ambient, you should also keep in mind that such a vague tone can be a double-edged sword, especially when your narrative pulse becomes so tedious.

It was a sad disappointment.… Expand

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