Gentlemen Broncos Critic Reviews

The director, Jared Hess, who made "Napoleon Dynamite," a film I admit I didn't get, has made a film I don't even begin to get.Read the full review

Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness.Read the full review

Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess.Read the full review

A comedy that can’t even admit to its own overwhelming sense of disgust.Read the full review

If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear that Gentlemen Broncos was made by a disaffected high school student – and not a particularly talented one.Read the full review

Crammed with so much deliberate tackiness that it borders on exhausting self-parody.Read the full review

Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels.Read the full review

Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos.Read the full review

Setting out to make a cult movie is almost as strange as setting out to make a camp movie. Or setting out to make a movie that's so bad it's good. If you know you're doing it, you're not really doing it.Read the full review