Harry Brown is, for the most part, one of the most original, stylistically-assured films to come out this year, and is a deeply impressive, distinctive showcase for its newcomer director, and canonised star.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Barber’s debut proves to be more than an exploitative picture about revenge; instead, it’s a startling look at social problems that have no satisfying solution.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2023

Without Michael Caine, Harry Brown would not surpass its similar bunch. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2022

Serves up one of Michael Caine's most complex and richly realized performances in years amidst its urban decay and revenge fantasies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

A man and a film rooted in life, surviving and thriving on heart. A wake-up call for our time. A man for the ages. Move over John McClaine and Martin Riggs!

| Nov 13, 2019

The film takes on an unnervingly fascist tone that makes one wonder just what the filmmakers had in mind.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Harry Brown might just about have got by as a tongue-in-cheek popcorn romp, but by setting itself up as a virtual state-of-the-nation address it only draws attention to its own petty, embittered vacuity.

| Jul 10, 2018

If all these aspects could be fleshed out and balanced, "Harry Brown" would be an excellent film. As it stands, it's an interesting look into one man's vigilantism, whose partial success is entirely do to the many talents of Michael Caine.

| Apr 10, 2018

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

By the end, it's turned from a geriatric Death Wish into a one-dimensional Taxi Driver...

| Sep 4, 2010

"[Caine] elevates this grim vigilante-fest from pretty darn good to essential viewing."

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 15, 2010

A lot to digest stylistically and narratively, but Harry Brown is developed in an ever-increasing, shock-inducing manner and is undeniably successful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Although Caine lives up to expectations in this nicely crafted (though violent) film, the oversimplified story he's given to work with keeps it from the top of Caine's impressive filmography.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2010

Harry Brown is a more meditative take on garden variety exploitation, but its attraction lies in the same guilty pleasure centers of the brain that exult in a kind of movie violence that is the very opposite of senseless.

| Original Score: 5.9/10 | Jul 18, 2010

Caine, that master of gentle sadness, lets us know Harry immediately as a good man trying to get by -- and trying to understand what seems like madness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2010

A very good film -- albeit very violent and bloody -- and contains yet another splendid Michael Caine performance. I'm not complaining too much based on those grounds alone.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 1, 2010

In the hands of a lesser actor, this would feel just as clichéd as it sounds. But Caine brings his smarts as well as his baggage to the character, making him more than another mad-as-hell guy with a gun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2010

A revenge fantasy that recalls the Charles Bronson Death Wish series and Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, Daniel ... would be unremarkable if not for the grave, lowered gaze of Michael Caine and the relentless grittiness of its cinematography.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Jun 16, 2010