Brassed Off Critic Reviews

The characters are beautifully drawn in this bittersweet melodrama written and directed by Mark Herman.Read the full review

Brassed Off is a sweet film with a lot of anger at its core.Read the full review

The pitch of the script, written by director Mark Herman, isn't perfect. But these earthy blokes are an engaging lot, the soot of the earth, with an admirably wry view of their bleak situations. [23May1997 Pg 03.D]Read the full review

Brassed Off! is a traditional feel-good motion picture with an element of social commentary thrown in for good measure.Read the full review

This well-played, often very sparky dramedy about the shenanigans in a northern brass band composed of miners threatened with pit closure gets a bad attack of social realism in the latter stages that rocks the crowded craft.Read the full review

Brassed Off is shamelessly manipulative and sentimental, but in an agreeably familiar way.Read the full review

There's a double meaning in the title of this folksy, relentlessly political, heavy-handed story, written and directed by Mark Herman and set among the coal mines of Yorkshire, England, in 1992.Read the full review

Brassed Off gets bogged down in sentimentality; and that political agenda is spread on thick.Read the full review

The difficulty is that Brassed Off operates at an emotional pitch that starts at a crescendo and never relents--rendering almost everything equally inconsequential.Read the full review