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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingAside from a showy opening (a tracking shot that snakes through a club, cribbing freely from Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights, etc.), the movie satisfies mainly due to its affecting ensemble and considerable emotional intelligence.
- What’s best about the film is its willingness to go deep, its strange yet effective fluidity between serious scenes and dance numbers, and Duran’s grace with weighty subjects.
- 63RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireRogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireOlder audiences are likely to find the film less amusing than risible.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreWhatever its intent, Bravetown stumbles through a steady supply of contrivances designed to make the budget work and the storylines overlap.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe filmmakers attempt to acknowledge the pain of warfare within the framework of a redemptive story that lends it an unforgivably patronizing sense of closure.
- 30Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenFirst-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenBravetown, directed by Daniel Duran from a screenplay by Oscar Orlando Torres, can sometimes drown in its own tears.
- 30Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghArizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghThere is nothing brave about Bravetown, a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven.
- 12Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanI would call the movie a trainwreck, except it’s really four or five separate trainwrecks.
- This isn’t Bravetown. It’s Crazytown.