The Brass Teapot
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: April 5, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

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70
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 3, 2013
Despite the inherent perversity of the concept, Mosley succeeds in maintaining a certain sweetness throughout. Even more impressively, she makes her low-budget enterprise look as slick as most midrange studio comedies, demonstrating herself a director with both imagination and technical ingenuity. Read full review
67
HitfixDrew McWeenyJan 7, 2015
It is apparent that Ramaa Mosley has a voice, and that The Brass Teapot is a focused, controlled piece of storytelling that displays real control. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMar 30, 2013
The Brass Teapot stumbles into tedium, a parable that never quite resolves itself into the moral lesson it so desperately wants to convey. Read full review
60
NPRStephanie ZacharekApr 4, 2013
The Brass Teapot too often devolves into stale slapstick. Read full review
60
Film.comJordan HoffmanApr 2, 2013
Despite the numerous patchy moments The Brass Teapot by and large squeaks by as an enjoyable entertainment. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartApr 4, 2013
Temple and Angarano, entertaining enough, never quite sell the idea that this goodhearted couple would be so easily transformed by greed. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 4, 2013
Alice and John are good company — especially Alice, thanks to Ms. Temple's buoyant humor and lovely poignancy. The problem comes when the couple gets greedy, the gods grow angry and the tone turns dark. It doesn't stay dark, but getting back to the brightness is a painful process. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 3, 2013
While its supernatural premise might have fueled a perfectly good Twilight Zone episode, The Brass Teapot strains to fill its feature-length running time. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedApr 2, 2013
Far from the offbeat satire on the American dream gone sour it aims to be, The Brass Teapot is more like a dark flirtation with the American nightmare that backfires. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick McCarthyApr 1, 2013
Imbued with a buoyant mysticism, the film is more gag-friendly than idea-based, primarily relying on the considerable charm of its leads to ground its supernatural conceit. Read full review
50
The PlaylistMark ZhuravsyMar 1, 2013
With the help of a talented cast, The Brass Teapot is able to coast on charm for the first hour, but then the fairytale idea that powers the film runs out of juice, and the last forty-five minutes hurtle toward a wrap-up that feels both awkward and overwrought, needlessly portentous and arriving much too late. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldApr 4, 2013
The movie’s best bits lose out to the requisite moral turnaround. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick SchagerApr 4, 2013
Wearing out its welcome long before its moralizing finale, the film...does manage to mine contemporary fears about the increasing worthlessness of a college degree. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubJosh ModellApr 3, 2013
Its comedic side never bites, and its moral side is painfully one-dimensional. A little to the left and The Brass Teapot might’ve been mean-spirited fun; a little to the right and it could play on The Hallmark Channel. For a movie with such an outlandish premise, it’s remarkably dull. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 4, 2013
Without a human dimension to ground its construct, The Brass Teapot ultimately feels like an interminably stretched-out skit rather than a storybook lesson stained with blood and hurt. Read full review
20
Time OutSam AdamsApr 2, 2013
The film feels like its over long before the credits roll — or perhaps that’s just wishful thinking. Read full review
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