The film never allows the audience to truly get to know any of the characters in Larry's world, a world in which their uniform shirts emblazoned with company logos and their first names serve as reminders of their lot in life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2015

By widening his soulful puppy eyes - matched only, quite eerily, by those of his French bulldog in real life, Arrow - Schwartzman successfully dares audiences to care.

| Sep 3, 2015

Schwartzman ... gives Larry enough humanity and a modicum of personal growth that you keep coming back for more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2015

Writer-director Bob Byington showed potential as a social satirist with his provocative 2008 indie RSO (Registered Sex Offender), but this slacker comedy lacks any such venom.

| Sep 3, 2015

With 7 Chinese Brothers, Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington has made his most accessible film yet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2015

7 Chinese Brothers is so slight it risks evaporating on contact.

| Original Score: C | Sep 2, 2015

The sharpest moments cast mundane struggles in a nearly spiritual light.

| Aug 31, 2015

You've seen this movie before in different guises. Byington does seem to have a vision of life, though, which is more than you can say for most comedy directors working at this budget level.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2015

Schwartzman is great at making Harry both sharply intelligent and not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. You also sense, in some lost look in his eye, a faint realization that life is passing him by.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2015

Considering how aimless its screenplay, how lost its hero and how unglamorous its setting, Bob Byington's "7 Chinese Brothers" is remarkably appealing.

| Aug 27, 2015

There's absolutely nothing novel about a "loser gets it together" arc ... But for those who just want to see Schwartzman be Schwartzman for an hour or so, 7 Chinese Brothers delivers the goods.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 27, 2015

Call it quirky or observational or shaggy, but almost everything works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2015

Feels like an homage to the early work of Wes Anderson with its plinky soundtrack, solipsistic banter and emphasis on uniforms.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2015

7 Chinese Brothers is a go-nowhere shrug of a movie, the kind of indie that might send you screaming for the multiplex.

| Aug 25, 2015

[Jason Schwartzman] smarms his way through Bob Byington's very funny 7 Chinese Brothers as if the pic had been drawn up especially for him.

| Apr 10, 2015

Like its primary character, 7 Chinese Brothers is charming but can't always figure out what it wants to be.

| Apr 10, 2015

"Quirky" alone isn't enough.

| Apr 10, 2015

Rarely has Schwartzman played a role that is so without affectation, nor has he embarked on a true love from this oblique an angle. Blame (i.e. praise) Byington for keeping the proceedings exceptionally honest while never stinting on the inherent comedy.

| Apr 10, 2015