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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Brassed Off is a sweet film with a lot of anger at its core.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
The characters are beautifully drawn in this bittersweet melodrama written and directed by Mark Herman.
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75
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
The pitch of the script, written by director Mark Herman, isn't perfect. But these earthy blokes are an engaging lot, the soot of the earth, with an admirably wry view of their bleak situations. [23May1997 Pg 03.D]
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75
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
Brassed Off! is a traditional feel-good motion picture with an element of social commentary thrown in for good measure.
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70
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Brassed Off is shamelessly manipulative and sentimental, but in an agreeably familiar way.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's a double meaning in the title of this folksy, relentlessly political, heavy-handed story, written and directed by Mark Herman and set among the coal mines of Yorkshire, England, in 1992.
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60
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Brassed Off gets bogged down in sentimentality; and that political agenda is spread on thick.
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50
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Los Angeles Times John Anderson
The difficulty is that Brassed Off operates at an emotional pitch that starts at a crescendo and never relents--rendering almost everything equally inconsequential.
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50
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
An odd duck of a movie, it's really a British Labor Party television commercial bitterly shoehorned into the cheesy format of an American triumph fantasy, with a horn section.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
Writer-director Mark Herman seems genuinely moved by the plight of the mining communities, but his attempt to translate those feelings into a story shows the effects of hard labor.
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