Brassed Off' should not be missed.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 28, 2022

You'll definitely laugh, you'll probably cry, and you might even want to take up the flugelhorn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2021

The movie delivers way too much doom-and-gloom-pah-pah.

| Sep 9, 2020

The edgy pace writer/director Mark Herman brings to the drama and his presentation of the musical sequences can't be faulted, and he draws remarkable performances from a cast that includes Ewan McGregor and Pete Postlethwaite.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2020

Pete Postlethwaite is moving as the bandleader, whose dream of taking his players to compete at the Albert Hall nearly eclipses his appreciation of the dire issues they face.

| Sep 9, 2020

[An] audacious, angry but oddly agreeable screed on the social evils of Thatcherism in 1992 Great Britain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2020

The film is sentimental and its politics black-and-white. Still, "Brassed Off" is as rousing and immensely likable as a superb brass band, which the film is ostensibly about.

| Sep 9, 2020

"Brassed Off" is about as sloppy as it gets, but for nearly two-thirds of the movie the gushiness is pretty much kept in check. And those two thirds are quite a treat.

| Sep 9, 2020

It survives through its never-failing sense of humour and the fact that by its loving depiction of alternative values -- of warmth and community -- to the ones it assaults, you feel it has earned the right to turn attacker.

| Nov 22, 2017

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Herman has come up with a neat idea in a setting he knows and understands, and the script, helped along by an excellent selection of Brit character actors, has a generally taught, well-worked-over feel.

| Jul 6, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2007

Writer/director Herman pulls off a popular, proletarian comedy which might actually appeal to the people it's about.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2005

An accessible, entertaining package that is at once formulaic and clich-busting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2005

Touching story is a good early showcase for McGregor

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2004

fun but overrated

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2004