Brothers

Unfortunately, these antics aren’t enough to liven up a script that’s mostly formula.

The quirkiest thing about it is how much of that time it spends accidentally calling attention to its own overwritten, under-thought weaknesses.

Brothers takes a tediously familiar comedy story structure and hangs some genuinely interesting characters and performances on it. It’s like a Frankenstein monster made out of Raising Arizona and Dumb and Dumber To.

It’s a pretty good movie that, thanks mainly to its performances, has a lot more life than you might expect.

Brolin and Dinklage might seem like a magnetic pair of bickering twins — and they are what is keeping this ship from sinking — but mostly it’s dismaying to see such strong dramatic actors stifled in such a sedate comedy.

Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage play mismatched siblings with heavy jaws in Max Barbakow’s second feature, which finds him trading the subtler comic shadings of Palm Springs for ham-fisted humor, to disappointingly diminishing effect.

This caper comedy relies on a well-worn story—all the way down to the "one last job and I'm out" cliché—but the excellent cast goes all in on their oversized performances, and it's a lot of fun.

An impressive cast can't save road movie caper Brothers from its biggest issue: it's just a little too dull.


Near perfect in virtually every aspect, “Palm Springs” hinted at a budding master filmmaker. But rather than improving on or even matching its quality and originality, Barbakow took two steps backwards, wiping out any and all good will he had banked.

Dinklage is great, but Fraser's deranged performance takes the crown