Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 10, 2013

A powerful statement on a violent society -- and a very uncomfortable one that is apt to alienate many viewers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A vital, stylish Yakuza pic, Kitano crafts a new world/old world, brother against brother epic battle straddling both sides of the Pacific.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2007

Takashi has been considered a master auteur. Perhaps, but there's no art here, just violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 7, 2003

The film explores in multi-layered depths how violence begets violence and how this cycle, once started, is nearly impossible to break.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 19, 2003

If the yardstick for mob flicks is 'Goodfellas' (and it should be), then 'Brother' doesn't stand a chance. On its own, however, it is a stylish, colourful film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2003

Oh, brother.

| Oct 21, 2002

There's no flow to this movie -- it just plods along from one disconnected sequence to another.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 26, 2002

Always audacious and never less than entertaining, even when it's coming apart at the seams.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2002

It's a little hard to take, a little too nihilistic.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 10, 2002

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 20, 2002

It fails to work because it falls into the conventional exploitive genre of Hollywood action films instead of retaining the quirky director's unusual artistic sensibilities.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 28, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 75/100 | Jan 5, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 12, 2001

The movie comes across as a confusing mess, lacking in substance and entirely missing its goal.

| Oct 19, 2001

Brother's attempt to romanticize crime finally collapses under its own weight.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2001

Loud, direct, and uncompromised, Brother is raw red meat in an age of cinematic tofu.

| Sep 4, 2001