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Agnes and His Brothers

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Agnes and His Brothers (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 19

Fresh: 8

Rotten:11

Average Rating: 5.1/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jun 9, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: In AGNES AND HIS BROTHERS, German director Oskar Roehler fashions an unconventional family drama about three brothers--a sex-addicted librarian (Moritz Bleibtreu, RUN LOLA RUN), a seemingly... In AGNES AND HIS BROTHERS, German director Oskar Roehler fashions an unconventional family drama about three brothers--a sex-addicted librarian (Moritz Bleibtreu, RUN LOLA RUN), a seemingly successful politician (Herbert Knaup), and a male-to-female transsexual (Martin Weiss)--coming to terms with their overbearing father and his impact on their lives and relationships. [More]

Starring: Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann

Starring: Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling, Susan Anbeh

Director: Oskar Roehler

Director: Oskar Roehler
Producer: Stefan Arndt
Studio: First Run Features

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Has much to recommend

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

It's a slick, ambitious movie that doesn't always nail all the many moods and themes it's after. But the actors give it force and depth.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/17/06
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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The film's outrageousness would be more palatable if leavened with more wit, or if the characterizations possessed more nuances.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
07/18/06
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
07/01/06
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
06/24/06
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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Neither Agnes nor his brothers ever feel real enough to truly shock.

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
06/10/06
Jurgen Fauth
About.com

some of the best acting to come out of Germany since before the Nazis took over.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
06/09/06
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

In shuttling between drama and farce, more than a few balls get dropped.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/09/06
Jay Weissberg
Variety
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[The film] isn't especially engaging, despite a quietly charismatic performance by Weiss, a relative newcomer who holds his own against far more experienced actors.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
06/09/06
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

There's fierce energy and -- thanks to the performances -- affecting emotion in the movie that almost makes you forget that Rainer Werner Fassbinder told a similar story much better 28 years ago with In a Year with 13 Moons.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
06/09/06
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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About halfway through, however, the story takes on more than it can handle, turning contrived and unbelievable in the process.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/09/06
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Whenever he takes the time to line up his toxic arrows, usually with the help of a compellingly squirmy Bleibtreu, he hits the bull's-eye.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
06/09/06
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Where Roehler spends the most time, it seems, is with Werner, whose story evolves from satiric parody to compelling family drama -- there are few scenes more satisfying than when he takes a chainsaw to his son's marijuana crop.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/09/06
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine

The feverish libidos wreaking emotional havoc in Oskar Roehler's infantile sex comedy are a quintessentially Germanic mixture of kinky, obsessive and sentimental.

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06/08/06
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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It says something about Roehler's vision for Agnes And His Brothers that he didn't think much about the movie's centerpiece character, beyond the simplistic irony of having the family transsexual be the most normal.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
06/07/06
Noel Murray
AV Club

Painfully literal/ironic soundtrack choices add to the general unpleasantness, and the nods to Fassbinder's great In a Year of 13 Moons only emphasize what this scattershot satire most decidedly is not.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/06/06
Dennis Lim
Village Voice
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Fitfully engaging but narratively messy.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
06/06/06
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

Effectively mixes humor with melodrama to deliver an absorbing look at 3 brothers with enormous emotional problems.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
05/23/06
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Just as the characters are underthought, the storylines are incongruently pieced together.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
04/20/05
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

While the script has the occasional hiccough, the impeccable performances of the three actors actually make us care for these dysfunctional brothers.

Full Review Source: european-films.net | comment Comment
04/18/05
Boyd van Hoeij
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