
San Francisco Chronicle
The movie plays authentically enough but is drearily, almost perversely opposed to the fundamental cinematic rule of "show, don't tell."
Full reviewJoel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad) and Matthias Schoenaerts (The Danish Girl) star in this crime-drama as cousins tied to Philadelphia's underworld. When an impulsive move causes the mob to seek penance, they appoint one of the men to kill the other - and there's no backing out of it. Based on Pete Dexter's novel Brotherly Love, co-starring Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions) and Maika Monroe (It Follows).
The movie plays authentically enough but is drearily, almost perversely opposed to the fundamental cinematic rule of "show, don't tell."
Full reviewIt feels rather plodding... failing to turn the boxer's conflicting loyalties into the stuff of crime-flick high drama.
Full reviewCasual viewers, unwilling to sit through 90 minutes that feel like three hours, won't find much interest in such a somber, slow-burn approach...
Full reviewBrothers By Blood is available to stream in New Zealand now on Academy On Demand.
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