This modest, enormously likable film, about love and temptation and ties that bind, is about brotherhood most of all. [9 August 1995, p.C9]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
You don't have to be Catholic, or Irish, or even American, to "get it." Burns' language, despite originating on Long Island, is universal in appeal and meaning.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The women's characters are as well drawn as the men's in a splendidly acted film that captures the confusion of love in ways that are ardent, affecting and wonderfully funny.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie brings into focus how rare religion and spirituality are in American films.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
This meaty Irish stew isn't arty or elliptical. It ought to connect with anyone who's survived sibling tension or romantic fence-sitting. [9 August 1995, Life, p.5D]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
This knowing, low-budget comedy will appeal to men, who'll recognize their behavior, but also to women, who'll see it as goosing the gander.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The romantic troubles of three Irish-Catholic brothers on Long Island don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.Read Full Review »
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