The Brothers McMullen Critic Reviews

Burns has created an endearing gathering of people we all know, and every one of them is so much fun that leaving the theater at the end elicits a touch of regret.Read the full review

While other films struggle for their effects, Brothers simply lives and breathes, thoroughly likable from beginning to end.Read the full review

Good old-fashioned virtues of three-dimensional characters, fine dialogue, recognizable life situations and meat-and-potatoes content.Read the full review

One of the most enjoyable experiences of the year.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

The movie brings into focus how rare religion and spirituality are in American films.Read the full review