Brothers

Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal fail to establish a convincing bond in Jim Sheridan's family drama.

Director Jim Sheridan sets the table early on for everything that will unfold in "Brothers." It's a last supper of sorts for the Cahill family, featuring Tobey Maguire as older brother Sam, a Marine captain returning to Afghanistan, and Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), younger by a few years, a roguish reprobate just out of jail. Though it is Sam's experiences on the frontlines that will ultimately sear and shred the Cahills, dinner turns out to be not a bad starting point. As is often the case in Sheridan's movies, family dynamics will actually be the main course with old fights and simmering resentments served alongside rolls and the rest. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4466 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 4 dicembre 2009