Mal Vincent The Virginian-Pilot Mar 28, 2022 4/4

Brassed Off' should not be missed.

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Tracey Petherick Common Sense Media Oct 21, 2021 4/5

You'll definitely laugh, you'll probably cry, and you might even want to take up the flugelhorn.

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Leah Rozen People Magazine Sep 9, 2020

The movie delivers way too much doom-and-gloom-pah-pah.

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David Parkinson Radio Times Sep 9, 2020 4/5

The edgy pace writer/director Mark Herman brings to the drama and his presentation of the musical sequences can't be faulted, and he draws remarkable performances from a cast that includes Ewan McGregor and Pete Postlethwaite.

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Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader Sep 9, 2020

Pete Postlethwaite is moving as the bandleader, whose dream of taking his players to compete at the Albert Hall nearly eclipses his appreciation of the dire issues they face.

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Dennis King Tulsa World Sep 9, 2020 3/4

[An] audacious, angry but oddly agreeable screed on the social evils of Thatcherism in 1992 Great Britain.

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Michael Ollove Baltimore Sun Sep 9, 2020

The film is sentimental and its politics black-and-white. Still, "Brassed Off" is as rousing and immensely likable as a superb brass band, which the film is ostensibly about.

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Paul Tatara CNN.com Sep 9, 2020

"Brassed Off" is about as sloppy as it gets, but for nearly two-thirds of the movie the gushiness is pretty much kept in check. And those two thirds are quite a treat.

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Quentin Curtis Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 22, 2017

It survives through its never-failing sense of humour and the fact that by its loving depiction of alternative values -- of warmth and community -- to the ones it assaults, you feel it has earned the right to turn attacker.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B-

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Derek Elley Variety Jul 6, 2010

Herman has come up with a neat idea in a setting he knows and understands, and the script, helped along by an excellent selection of Brit character actors, has a generally taught, well-worked-over feel.

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Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) Feb 18, 2007 2/5

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 21, 2005 3/5

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Oct 14, 2005 3/4

An accessible, entertaining package that is at once formulaic and clich-busting.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Oct 3, 2005 2/5

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Nell Minow Movie Mom May 5, 2005 4/5

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James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette Dec 18, 2004 4/5

Touching story is a good early showcase for McGregor

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Randy Shulman Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) Nov 18, 2004 3/5

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Sep 19, 2004 3/5

fun but overrated

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Jules Brenner Cinema Signals Apr 17, 2004 3/5

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