My Blind Brother Reviews
Nick Kroll sharpens his post-television presence as unambitious deadbeat Bill whose doomed purpose in life is to be a seeing-eye underdog for his egotistical handicapable brother Robbie.
| Original Score: C+ | Nov 5, 2018
There's just something missing at the heart of My Blind Brother. It never coheres as intended on every comedic and dramatic level it aims for.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018
My Blind Brother is a moderately sweet movie about terrible people. The awkwardness will make you wince, but it also hits on something true about the lengths we go to in the name of being nice.
| Oct 16, 2017
My Blind Brother works better as an exploration of toxic narcissism than a laugh-generating device.
| Aug 18, 2017
This is a funny movie, with just enough edge to keep you off-balance.
| Nov 18, 2016
First-time director Sophie Goodhart coaxes a grown-up performance out of Kroll, and Scott's smarmy contentiousness has never been put to better use.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2016
Sophie Goodhart's charming, low-key debut My Blind Brother is a deceptively emotional experience.
| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2016
An enjoyable diversion from the predominantly saccharine [romantic comedies], and one that will elicit more than a few inappropriate giggles from the more twisted fans out there.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 29, 2016
My Blind Brother is an effective vehicle for its stars, but it never truly gels as a particularly compelling narrative with something meaningful to say.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 24, 2016
The politically incorrect jokes, while often funny, wear a bit thin as director Sophie Goodhart lays them on with naughty glee.
| Sep 23, 2016
... breaks down taboos with sardonic wit and surprising tenderness, and the result is both mischievous and heartfelt in its examination of sibling rivalry.
| Sep 23, 2016
Dramedy about adult siblings has language, drinking.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2016
My Blind Brother puts these characters through the comic wringer, but the humor is founded on the characters and their flaws, not the circumstances.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2016
Can Jenny Slate be in all the movies?
| Sep 22, 2016
A thoroughly harmless comedy that spaces its one-liners a bit widely. It's made watchable by an appealing cast ...
| Sep 22, 2016
"My Blind Brother" is certainly the best version of this script you'll get thanks to the cast, but it's also a painful viewing experience to see such potential so thoroughly wasted, and such magnetism dulled off.
| Original Score: D | Sep 22, 2016
Zoe Kazan provides the only compelling moments... yet playing the normal one among such a group of narcissists is a thankless task.
| Sep 22, 2016
The studio-produced romantic comedy may be flatlining, but who cares, so long as snappy indies like this one step up to fill the void?
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2016
It's a slight film, but one that hits all the tricky emotional and comedic notes without a hint of cruelty.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2016
Though My Blind Brother clearly isn't aiming for the feel-good realm, the emotions never ring true enough to make any of the purposely flawed leads relatable, never mind likable.
| Original Score: C- | Sep 22, 2016