David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Feb 26, 2026 3/4

...an audacious biopic that rarely, if ever, unfolds as one might’ve anticipated...

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Taylor Baker Drink in the Movies Sep 9, 2021 78/100

Episode 27: Valhalla Rising / Bronson / Starred Up / True Detective S3

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Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper Jan 23, 2020

Refn probably burns too much of the juice he could be using for character motivation or some perspective on crime and punishment on the style-for-style's-sake gangsta glam of Guy Ritchie.

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Ard Vijn ScreenAnarchy Jan 17, 2020

Whichever part you feel the most uncomfortable with, it's worth enduring it for "Bronson" is filled with imaginative and memorable imagery.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Nov 12, 2018 3/5

It's actually quite an intuitive work, taking Bronson's publicity-courting profile as a base to conjure a lurid opera on the phenomenon of 'Bronson'.

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Robert Hanks Independent (UK) Nov 15, 2017

It's not a masterpiece by any stretch; but it's original and pacy, and those qualities are rare enough.

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Damon Wise Radio Times Sep 3, 2015 3/5

Hardy does an admirable job of making this monster human, which he achieves with surprising wit and a visceral, attention-grabbing passion.

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Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine Sep 26, 2014

...the film can barely contain Tom Hardy's performance. It's a Method turn so bloodily immersive it's hard to imagine the actor getting his head straight afterwards.

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Steve Dollar Stop Smiling Mar 5, 2014

The movie's giddy brio can leave you punch-drunk, and oddly unsatisfied.

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Will Leitch Deadspin Jun 22, 2013 C

An overstylized mess, with a brave but pointless performance from Tom Hardy as a lifelong prisoner who just wants to destroy everything around him, most of all himself.

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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Nov 16, 2011 4/5

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Sep 8, 2011 3.5/4

...an anthropological study in human viciousness, like a nature film done by Stanley Kubrick.

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Dave White Movies.com Apr 4, 2011 4.5/5

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Dec 17, 2010 3.5/5

full review at Movies for the Masses

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Edward Havens FilmJerk.com Nov 4, 2010 C

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Tim Grierson The Simon Feb 26, 2010

Bronson doesn't have much to say, but it's a very fun exercise in bad behavior that's neither glamorized nor bemoaned.

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Sean Axmaker Seanax.com Feb 17, 2010

It's content to be a kind of freak-show character study of a man who embraces anarchy, not for its own sake but for the fame and adrenaline that it brings him.

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Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic Jan 22, 2010 4/5

This is psychotic behavior as performance art, and Hardy makes it irresistible.

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Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt Jan 14, 2010 40/100

For such a potentially exciting subject matter, Bronson hits way too many lulls.

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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Jan 5, 2010 B

In the end, "Bronson" is a beautiful, intense film about a man that may or may not be insane, based on events that might actually have occurred in his life.

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