Although it possesses believable circumstances, it primarily proves that obeying the law isn't nearly as much fun as breaking it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 24, 2020

Sorry, but I ain't buying it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

May be a potboiler at heart, but its moral ambiguity combined with Foster's stellar performance make for something that is compulsively watchable and hard to get out of your head.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

A superior vigilante flick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

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Jodie Foster and thoughtful Irish international director Neil Jordan take us to places we'd probably rather avoid.

| Apr 28, 2011

Deplorable urban-vengeance melodrama

| Aug 27, 2009

You know what would be brave? Making an unflinching film about a difficult-to-tackle topic and complex characters, and sticking to your message, damn the torpedoes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

The Brave One is not merely the most morally repellent film of the year, but a contender for the stupidest.

| Sep 22, 2008

They're trotting it around at all the festivals trying to distract everyone from how bad it is.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 8, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

[A] dopey action movie featuring the contributions of people too talented to waste their time on something this risible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Jordan je, koriste%u0107i svoj nesumnjivi re%u017Eijski talent, snimio film koji je istovremeno i staromodan i moderan

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 10, 2008

The switch is flipped so quickly by Erica that I didn't root for her vengeance, I felt sorry for her.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 3, 2008

The Brave One feels like a superhero movie, charting the familiar story of an unsuspecting everywoman who discovers one day that a gun gives her special powers to right wrongs and uphold justice.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Audience identification with the movie really rests on whether you're turned off by this freestyle, really pissed off judge and jury female assassin, or else in the mood to cut this loose cannon sexy sniper some slack.

| Feb 3, 2008

If nothing else, enjoy Nicky Katt's hilariously smart-ass one-liners.

| Original Score: C | Jan 31, 2008

The movie never seems entirely plausible. Yet it makes no difference; we still get involved with it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 23, 2008

In this dreary, cockamamie Valentine to New York City haters, concocted by the father/son team of Roderick and Bruce A. Taylor--a good argument for the government sterilization of a certain family's genes--radio personality Erica Bain (Foster) is confront

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