Emotionally commanding.

| Jun 14, 2018

Taut and unexpected, Brothers is gripping from start to finish.

| Feb 28, 2018

if every film I see is as satisfying a complex human drama as this, I wouldn't have much to gripe about.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2007

Un drama familiar intimista y bien actuado sobre los efectos que puede producir un trauma en la vida de las personas, y sobre la oportunidad de cambiar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2007

A poignant reminder that social issues, in the end, are personal matters.

| Feb 22, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 17, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 16, 2006

It is a universal story, flashing with both insight and pain the likes of which most mainstream Hollywood pictures can only hint at.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2005

...about the kind of choices that we might make under duress â" and about the sort of accommodations we must necessarily make with the difficult choices our loved ones make.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 15, 2005

This is storytelling at its best, with each scene building toward a crescendo of moral decisions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2005

The two male leads, bulwarks of the Danish film industry for more than a decade, play off each other like the veterans they are.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2005

After the film ends you may find fault with certain plot elements, but while you're watching it, Bier's effort totally sucks you in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2005

...intriguing...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2005

Bier, honored as an Emerging Master at the Seattle International Film Festival this year, is clearly a director to watch. In her hands, a story that could become melodramatic is gripping and heartbreaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2005

The intimate handheld camera work and the attention to life's small details bring an emotional authenticity to this heartbreaking story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 24, 2005

The film melts into a duel of despair, rivalry and reconciliation that is as pure as it is painful.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 23, 2005

The been-there, seen-that feeling is hard to shake, despite the undeniable skill in the presentation.

| Jun 23, 2005

The wrenching "Brothers" is like "The Deer Hunter" for the War on Terror.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 23, 2005