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All Critics Count For My Brother The Devil : 31 | |
All Critics Percentage For My Brother The Devil : 97 % | |
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Actors For My Brother The Devil | |
Said Taghmaoui,James Floyd,Fady Elsayed,Aymen Hamdouchi,Ashley Thomas,Anthony Welsh,Arnold Oceng,Letitia Wright,Amira Ghazalla,Elarica Gallacher,Nasser Memarzia,Ashley Bashy Thomas,Nicola Harrison | |
My Brother The Devil Movie Review: | |
For at least part of its length, "My Brother the Devil" brings refreshing changes to a genre badly in need of them. Farran Smith Nehme-New York Post Nuances of faith, politics and sexual identity enrich what initially presents as a classic good son-bad son tale, and although the film's melting-pot patois is occasionally too dense to decipher, we get the gist. Jeannette Catsoulis-New York Times El Hosaini fights the conventions of the brotherly gangster melodrama, but the conventions win. Mark Jenkins-NPR It's far superior to what usually comes out of the British slums in the genre of gangland thrillers. Rex Reed-New York Observer It's to newcomer Sally El Hosaini's credit that she embeds a tangible, lived-in sense of the region's diaspora community and urban criminal underbelly that's leagues away from anthropological fetishizing. David Fear-Time Out New York A tender, bracing fraternal drama of London's gang life, the immigrant experience, and questions no smaller than what "manhood" might mean to young men whose traditional cultures are colliding with the worst-and the best-of the secular west. Alan Scherstuhl-Village Voice An engrossing debut from director Sally El Hosaini, My Brother the Devil is as authentic, emotionally complex and powerfully acted as any film you'll see this year. Simon Brookfield-We Got This Covered Unsure performances and some decades-old gangster-film stereotypes hamper this acute, beautifully shot portrait of Egyptian teenagers fighting to survive in a rough London neighborhood. Chris Barsanti-Film Journal International With My Brother the Devil, writer-director Sally El Hosaini tells a story both operatic in its implications and quotidian in its sensory, day-to-day details. Steve Macfarlane-Slant Magazine It's refreshing to see a new generation reinterpret the classics. James Cagney would be proud. Mike D'Angelo-AV Club There probably aren't too many Welsh-Egyptian writer-directors like newcomer Sally El Hosaini. But she's clearly representative of a new kind of diversity in modern Britain. And one which bodes well for its filmmaking future. Graham Young-Birmingham Mail As well as touching upon everything from homophobia to terrorism and the merits of bacon, it delivers a heart-touching degree of optimism that's all too rare for this genre. Graham Young-Birmingham Post In the busy swirl of London urban dramas which fly in and out of our cinemas this thoughtful and powerful film stands above the crowd. Jon Lyus-HeyUGuys The performances are uneven, but as the brothers, Floyd and Elsayed are both rather good. Philip French-Observer [UK] Sharply well-observed, this punchy British drama is packed with rising-star talent, including its gifted first-time writer-director, an engaging young cast and skilled cinematographer David Raedeker. Rich Cline-Contactmusic.com It's the twists in director and writer Sally El Hosaini's plot which set My Brother apart from the standard inner-city gang film. Alex Zane-Sun Online El Hosaini's skill as a director, and her way with an excellent cast, eventually triumphs. Derek Malcolm-This is London It becomes a winning mixture of Bullet Boy and My Beautiful Laundrette, and not nearly as dreary or dispiriting as you may fear. Christopher Tookey-Daily Mail [UK] It's an athletic, loose-limbed piece of movie-making, not perfect, but bursting with energy and adrenaline. Peter Bradshaw-Guardian [UK] Just when you thought gun crime in London's East End couldn't possibly yield another movie worth seeing, along comes My Brother the Devil to show us what we've all been missing. Tim Robey-Daily Telegraph | |
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