Brassed Off

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. Full Review

Brassed Off gets bogged down in sentimentality; and that political agenda is spread on thick. Full Review

Brassed Off! is a traditional feel-good motion picture with an element of social commentary thrown in for good measure. 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. 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. Full Review