The Sisters Brothers

Gimly

5.0

January 20, 2019

Certainly the better of the two Westerns I've seen today, but I'm also not really feeling the love with _Sisters Brothers_ like everybody else seems to be. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Stephen Campbell

5.0

August 21, 2019

_**A plodding and overlong tale of violence and redemption that doesn't seem to know quite what it's trying to say**_ > _You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away._ - Patrick deWitt; _The Sisters Brothers_ (2011) _T...

Horseface

1.0

August 05, 2023

I was looking forward to this. It has two of my favorite actors in it. Unfortunately, I had to give up on watching it. It's impossible to see what's going on. There are some shadows moving about, sometimes covering each other. A dot lights up occasionally on my 55-inch OLED. I can see subtitles, hear the sound. This is apparently one of t...

CinemaSerf

6.0

July 07, 2024

It might be that the clever title and the fact that this is backed by an whole host of European film funds is all that makes this rather sterile Western memorable. It's all about the enigmatic "Commodore" (Rutger Hauer) employing the eponymous brothers - "Eli" (John C. Reilly) and "Charlie" (Joaquin Phoenix) to track down the mild-mannere...