While on the surface you expect this to be another Bronson, Schoenarts performance is the mirror-opposite of Tom Hardy's - everything is pulled in so far you have to lean right into Jacky's oncoming head-butt

| Jul 2, 2021

A story of revenge, of a tormented past, of trying to make sense of things that make no sense.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 19, 2020

Bullhead tells a fascinating and unique tale. It also backs that tale up with staggering craft. The script is efficient and fairly flawless.

| Mar 31, 2020

Schoenaerts is exceptional as the explosive, testosterone junky cattle farmer. Likewise, director Roskam has infused his supporting characters with depth and a surprising amount of detail.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2019

Like a modern Greek tragedy, which unfolds madly, intensely, even dream-like from one minute to the next- a contemporary tale of violent, conflicted masculinities.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 3, 2019

Schoenaerts' belligerent, yet benign demeanour creates a fascinating character full of hidden complexities and a labyrinth of emotional dead ends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2019

A well-executed film, it is, nonetheless, a tough sell.

| Sep 18, 2017

At two hours, there's a lot of grunting and knuckle-cracking but it never lacks for dramatic heft.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Bullhead is the Oscar nominee you should be obsessing over. This Belgian dark horse with bite is tucked away in the Best Foreign Film category, but it might be one of the best films of the year.

| Jun 8, 2017

Roskam hooks us like a master and leads us where he needs to and wants to - on HIS terms and those that the story demands.

| Feb 5, 2013

Roskam has created a convoluted but airtight plot involving undercover investigations, betrayals and revenge, it doesn't go in the direction one might expect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2013

[A] bleak, dense, complex thriller ...

| Feb 3, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 2, 2013

Its centre holds, largely because of Schoenaerts's capacity to elicit our sympathy despite everything.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2013

It's compelling, and Schoenaerts is a treat as this taciturn knot of angst and muscle tone, but Michaël R Roskam's film is short on humanity and dash.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2013

It looks fantastic, boasts an unusual storyline and Schoenaerts is as compelling as a young Marlon Brando.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2013

Dark and involving, this shocking Belgian drama not only earned an Oscar nomination but propelled its director and leading man into much bigger movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2013

Actually pretty good - no bull.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2013

This thriller about a steroid-boosting farmer lost in the moral maze of Belgium's mafia underworld is a stylish, meaty treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2013

Bullhead becomes dark, minatory and coruscating in ways not light-aeons distant from Büchner or Scorsese.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2013