... Its mixture of sweetness and silliness is wonderful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Director Jim Archer’s mockumentary format dovetails neatly with Brian’s DIY aspirations and the film’s handmade, heartfelt aesthetic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2022

Made with genuine affection and innately British whimsy, this is really just an odd-couple comedy about two lonely blokes — one of whom has a “washing machine for a tummy”.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2022

The result has homemade charm to spare, proving delightfully ridiculous but also poignant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2022

... A witty and eccentric series of events that in any other iteration would have been pruned by a Hollywood script doctor. Brian and Charles, however, is all mood (the best kind) and minor narrative thrust.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2022

Works well enough on its own sweet but slight terms, and no one involved seems to want to push their luck.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2022

It has no lofty intentions whatsoever. It wants only to be a goofy non-taxing delight, which it is, and it comes in at 90 minutes, which is scant by today's standards, but ideal, and do stay for the credits. They're a hoot.

| Jul 7, 2022

Doesn’t quite justify feature length but it’s hard to resist a seven foot tall robot in a hula skirt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2022

Brian and Charles. Charles and Brian. They’re the double-act of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2022

Like the Muppets, Charles is funniest from the waist up. His humour is largely verbal anyway, and comes courtesy of voice-generating software which makes his stresses fall unpredictably.

| Jul 6, 2022

It’s the bromance of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2022

A crazy quilt of Pinocchio, Wallace and Gromit, Rain Man, and a dozen other movies and books, this is a film that can’t settle on a tone or approach.

| Jun 22, 2022

I enjoyed the mockumentary aspect. It's a little twee... But there's a goofy sweetness overall.

| Jun 21, 2022

Even if it’s a bit thematically slight and doesn’t quite stick the landing in congealing what themes it does have into a cohesive whole, sometimes all that’s necessary is an offbeat sense of humor and a weird enough premise to make a lasting impression.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2022

An oddball comedy that’s charmingly slight in some places, slightly charming in others, and seldom interested in digging more than a few millimeters below the surface.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2022

Inventive and disarming.

| Jun 17, 2022

Chris Hayward tests the audience’s ability to become invested in an unapologetically ridiculous concoction — and he succeeds better than the human caricatures who make up the rest of the ensemble

| Original Score: C | Jun 16, 2022

One of the most unexpected heart-warmers of the summer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2022

In its funny, implausible, and heartwarming depiction of a ramshackle platonic friendship between two oddballs, Brian and Charles creates a complete and immersive world.

| Jun 16, 2022

“Brian and Charles” is just daft enough a premise to spark a pilot light of charm, but that makes its superficial meandering so frustrating — the warmth has nowhere to go.

| Jun 16, 2022