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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A violent action movie with a heart and soul. Watching it is difficult; forgetting it is more so. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It is vengeance porn dressed up as an important film, a reverse slasher movie feigning some weak pretense of meaning beyond its own bloodlust. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The Brave One seems to be implicitly saying that only men are capable of forceful action, only men are interesting at the centre of a moral quandary -- or at least, women who resemble men. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: What might have been a serious drama about coming to terms with violence and loss turns into a crowd-pleasing and increasingly far-fetched remake of Death Wish. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: The moody tone and carefully balanced drama turn a grubby premise into something unexpectedly elegant. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: An ugly, manipulative mess. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The Brave One is oppressively plot-driven. All the mood is snuffed out. The filmmakers so want Erica's actions to make sense to us that the movie usually seems illogical despite itself. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Less a brave movie than a foolhardy one. Trapped in a no man's land between seriousness and pulp trash, it plays like a combination of Death Wish and The Hours. If that sounds like an awkward fit, it is. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The Brave One is Death Wish with a guilty conscience, and while it may be a bit of a hypocrite as vigilante thrillers go, the internal contradictions of the thing make for a very interesting picture. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It's lily-livered narrative cowardice, and I reject it. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Foster and Howard are both wonderful actors and they try very hard to make this soul stuff work. But the absurdity of the script does them in. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: What the screenwriters don't achieve in dialogue, director Jordan often delivers visually. He and his cinematographer employ a particularly powerful way to evoke Erica's resurfacing. It resembles a slow blink; it suggest a brain grappling to make sense. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Everything about Foster's ocular intensity is riveting, but little in this hushed vigilante drama makes sense. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Brave One is as bold a movie as we are likely to see this year, a movie that has more in common with 1970s provocations like Straw Dogs and Taxi Driver. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Jordan's ballsy and sometimes bonkers movie is more ambitious and alive -- more worth writing, talking and thinking about -- than anything that has tumbled off the Hollywood assembly line in a good long while. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: What could impel Jodie Foster and director Neil Jordan to whisk us back to the bad old days of Death Wish and Ms. 45? Were their credit cards maxed out? Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Clever, calculated, 'responsible' filmmaking. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Two terrific lead actors under the direction of the estimable Jordan aren't enough to overcome the proven axiom that although you can make a bad movie from a good script, you can't make a good one from a bad one. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Worth watching for Foster's fiercely arresting performance. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The Brave One has opened the fall movie season with a bang, indeed with a lot of bang, bang, bangs. Don't miss it. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The finale is bad enough to make you wish the actress were working more often, so that the blatantly commercial stuff wasn't all she was letting us see. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Because it wants the applause both of the chatting classes and the blood crowd, The Brave One doesn't take a firm position about vigilantism. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although it is bloody and at times brutal, it doesn't revel in the violence. There's more to the movie than initially meets the eye for an eye. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Psychological suspense is what makes The Brave One spellbinding. The movie doesn't dine out on action scenes, but regards with great curiosity how these two people will end up. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: There's a lot to admire in The Brave One. It just doesn't cut as deeply as it needs to. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: You long for all this combined talent to be in the service of something more deserving than a retread of a story that has lost the edge it had 33 years ago. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Foster isn't the only one abused in this film. Viewers are, too. Read more
Leah McLaren, Globe and Mail: A seventies' revenge movie with a woefully unconvincing patina of intellectual justification, The Brave One is the sort of genre movie that gets more credit than it deserves. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Uncertainty helps keep The Brave One on its toes. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Beautifully played, the tantalising accretion of mutual understanding between Foster and Howard is one of the film's strengths, yet the plot machinations required to lever it into position would overstretch credibility in the clunkiest action flick. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: The Brave One is not merely the most morally repellent film of the year, but a contender for the stupidest. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Foster does her best with a flawed story whose ending rings even less true than the rest of it. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: Foster's pistol-packing turn as an avenging dark angel nearly sustains director Neil Jordan's grim vigilante drama through a string of implausibilities and occasionally trite psychological framing devices, with deft support from Terrence Howard. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You may hate yourself for yielding to the expertise of the manipulation, but the vicarious thrill of The Brave One is the sense of pulling your own trigger on pure evil and watching the bullet tear through. Read more