Eichner hits most of the right notes, lovingly lambasting queer culture, but this movie follows too many of the same romcom tropes as its heterosexual contemporaries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

For the most part, it works rather well – a ribald and riotous onslaught of bracing humour which belies a sweetly soft centre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2022

It’s a proper, laugh-out-loud comedy which have you gasping for breath one minute and hands clapped over your mouth the next – yes, they went there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2022

Bros fails to satisfactorily map out its own space. Passes the time well enough. Doesn’t quite pull down the barriers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2022

It makes for a somewhat overloaded movie, sometimes very funny, sometimes with a sense of items being ticked off an agenda, sometimes emotionally a bit routine... All up, though, this is a major leap forward.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 28, 2022

Queer love stories are every bit as individual as heterosexual ones, and we deserve to see them on screen, but can certainly aim a little higher than this smug, unsatisfying mismatch of ideas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2022

It’s distinctly smug about pitching itself as a landmark, while being really more of a setback, and a pretty low bar for the next one to surmount.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2022

Bobby isn’t so much a character as a living newspaper op-ed by the most exhausting columnist in the world.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 27, 2022

If the movie has the energy of solo stand-up, that makes sense too. Lieber is a one-man show as well; how he might become part of a duo without diluting himself is the core of the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2022

The film only slightly loses its way when it tries to include too many narrative strands in the quest for representation across the board, which, while important, feels rather superfluous at times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2022

Hilarious from start to finish, with two excellent leading men and dollops of queer joy sprinkled throughout, Bros hits classic romcom beats while giving the genre a refreshing, much-needed update.

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

Hilarious and really has a universal appeal.

| Oct 14, 2022

The lines that do sing are wonderful and the direction by Nicholas Stoller is smart and pacey. It’s just not, well, all that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2022

Eichner, as co-writer, mixes in enough queer humor and insight to please fans and educate others. Pay attention, the one-liners and social consciousness observations are hurled at you non-stop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2022

Bros is a boldly gay comedy that defines love on its own terms.

| Oct 9, 2022

Funny, sharp, sexy, and occasionally explicit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2022

While "Bros" may follow a formula, it proudly shows that doesn't have to mean playing it straight.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 4, 2022

The film does entertain, and my laughs were loud and hearty on multiple occasions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2022

Step aside, Hugh Grant and Diane Keaton, the pantheon of great, neurotic rom-com leads has found a new king in Billy Eichner.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 1, 2022

Funny and warm, the gay love story lives up to the swooning standard of When Harry Met Sally and Notting Hill.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 1, 2022