He's spent 34 years behind bars, mostly in solitary. When the movie ends, you'll feel you've done hard time yourself.
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10/30/09
Bronson (2009)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:50
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Undeniably gripping, Bronson forces the viewer to make some hard decisions about where the line between art and exploitation lies.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 9, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post... [More]
Starring: Tom Hardy, Hugh Ross, Juliet Oldfield, Jonny Philips
Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
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Reviews for Bronson
Top CriticHas "cult hit" written all over it.
01/23/09
Top CriticRefn directs as a series of episodes, each set up for maximum weirdness and black humor, always emphasizing large, blocky spaces and fluid motion.
10/23/09
The film does a good job of presenting in bloody detail the misdeeds of a misanthrope while italicizing his underdeveloped artistic abilities, but it is obtuse when it comes to character development.
10/29/09
Top Criticin a film closer to A Clockwork Orange or Blue Velvet than to Chopper, brutal ultraviolence and arthouse oddity make for an arresting mix, while it is impossible to take your eyes off Hardy's intense serio-comic turn.
03/13/09
Charles Bronson seems like a bit of a sweetheart, when he's not trying to gouge someone's eyes out.
10/30/09
[Tom Hardy gives] one of the best performances of the year, maybe. It is certainly one of the most committed.
11/04/09
It’s a meditation on the art of rage -- an action painting passing itself off as an action movie.
11/24/09
Top Criticanimalistic
09/24/09
Hardy delivers a committed if showy performance, but there are some awful smaller turns which smell dangerously of homophobia. The whole thing made me want to scrub my brain with Vim.
03/13/09
Tom Hardy gives a disgustingly excellent performance.
10/19/09
A weird and wonderful anti-biopic
03/13/09
Done differently, the cat-and-mouse brawling could get tiresome, but Tom Hardy as Bronson -- with his shaved head, handlebar moustache, and glittering eyes -- is mesmerizing.
11/19/09
...not a great film but garners a strong performance from its star [Tom Hardy].
11/09/09
Nicolas Winding Refn ("The Pusher" trilogy) takes an experimental approach to the biopic, letting his subject guide the way through his life so far as if it were a piece of performance art.
11/09/09
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is an easy in for those looking for comparisons in terms of tone and mood and style.
10/06/09
Hardy's range is impressive, and he makes Refn's latest an arresting spectacle, if not a particularly enlightening one.
11/08/09
The movie takes on a fearsome purity, refusing to find reasons, indifferent to motives, not even finding causes and effects. It is 92 minutes of rage, acted by Tom Hardy.
10/29/09
Top CriticA pointless exercise in morbidity.
10/30/09
Top CriticTom Hardy proves more than ready for his close-up, cackling, snarling and head-butting his way through Pusher director Nicolas Winding Refn’s mercifully unconventional biopic.
10/15/09
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