| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2001

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2001

A lively, affectionate and well-acted romantic comedy.

| Mar 23, 2001

A politically incorrect but often hilarious jam session.

| Mar 23, 2001

Airless and oddly fatiguing.

| Mar 23, 2001

It's easier to laugh with the movie than take it seriously.

| Mar 23, 2001

Like candy, this male answer to the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale is sweet, pleasing and goes down easy -- but it's not very filling. Still, it's tasty while it lasts.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2001

If The Brothers falls far short of its prototype, Waiting to Exhale, it still conveys a warm-blooded affection for its characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 23, 2001

The Brothers is basically a Lifetime movie that somehow found its way into theaters.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2001

For all its coarse humor, The Brothers has moments of tenderness and depth.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2001

Smart, earthy and, in its own way, tender, The Brothers packs a powerfully entertaining punch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2001

For romantic comedy, it is not particularly romantic or funny.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2001

It's undeniable that director-writer Gary Hardwick's The Brothers has a target demographic. But the movie's themes of family, love and friendship are universal.

| Mar 23, 2001

The movie's a mixed bag, but worth seeing for the good stuff, which is a lesson in how productive it can be to allow characters to say what they might actually say.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2001

The Brothers is carried by the warmth that both sexes pour into its sitcom soul.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2001

Hardwick's boisterous film is enjoyably slapstick and uses laughter rather than psychological insights as therapy.

Full Review | Mar 22, 2001

Digs more vibrantly into issues of trust, fear, pleasure, commitment, and camaraderie than any Hollywood feature in recent memory.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 22, 2001

The dialogue is witty and lively, and the characters are crafted with insight and care.

Full Review | Mar 22, 2001