The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: September 21, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Total FilmNeil SmithSep 16, 2012
Nods to "Hostel" and "Glengarry Glen Ross" make for a cine-literate affair further buffered by a smart cameo from erstwhile Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaSep 20, 2012
Deadpan and a bit dopey, Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best has a shaggy charm, and the chemistry between the tuneful twosome's would-be Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty makes up for the inevitable rock-and-roll road movie cliches. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 27, 2012
Although the sentiment threatens to flatten out an intriguingly nervy vibe, Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best has plenty of rhythmic charm about its responsibility-challenged strivers. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle SmithSep 21, 2012
Initially, this low-budget film writes a lot of checks on the First National Bank of Whimsy, but I was astonished when none of them bounced. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAndy WebsterSep 20, 2012
Inner child? Open road? No, this film is actually about Mr. O'Nan and his wan, scruffy innocence. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 16, 2012
The comedy is at odds, perhaps even at war, with the gravitational downward pull of bittersweet seriousness, and the sucrose content is pretty high by the end. But it's an entertaining film. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianMarc MohanSep 28, 2012
This ode to indie legitimacy proves to be too cartoonish to feel real and not outrageous enough to be memorable. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick SchagerSep 18, 2012
O'Nan and Weston's rapport is engagingly prickly but their "Shins meets Sesame Street" tunes have a tweeness also found in the director's music montages and lens flares. Only in its even-handed treatment of Alex's fundamentalist-Christian brother (Andrew McCarthy) does the film feel like something less than a corny cornucopia of manchildren-grow-up clichés. Read full review
40
Time OutR. Emmet SweeneySep 18, 2012
This is strictly an amateur-hour affair. Read full review
40
EmpireDavid HughesSep 16, 2012
Good fun, but O'Nan doesn't take this film nearly as far as it could go, leaving the plot and its characters somewhat two-dimensional in their obvious stereotyping. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSep 20, 2012
The film has, at its source, a pool of affectations that so often constitute, or plague, American indie films--and, perhaps, American culture more generally. Read full review
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