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It's impossible to ignore the strain of misogyny that taints the movie. Oct 16, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4
It's impossible to ignore the strain of misogyny that taints the movie.
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes. Oct 13, 2003
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes.
Bob Campbell
Barnette, a veteran TV director, means this as an exposé of prison abuse and exploitation, but the film is too simplistic and derivative to succeed. Oct 10, 2003 | Rating: 1/4
Barnette, a veteran TV director, means this as an exposé of prison abuse and exploitation, but the film is too simplistic and derivative to succeed.
V.A. Musetto
Artistically, its heavy-handed clumsiness undercuts its goals. Oct 10, 2003 | Rating: D
Artistically, its heavy-handed clumsiness undercuts its goals.
Tom Long
It presents a heated-up, awkward blend of earnest outrage and down-and-dirty exploitation. Oct 9, 2003 | Rating: 2/5
It presents a heated-up, awkward blend of earnest outrage and down-and-dirty exploitation.
A.O. Scott
Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence. Oct 9, 2003 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.
Robert K. Elder
Wildly uneven, rife with a virtual checklist of human tragedies that build to easy emotional crescendos but fail to engage the audience well enough to evoke any meaning. Dec 15, 2003 | Full Review…
Wildly uneven, rife with a virtual checklist of human tragedies that build to easy emotional crescendos but fail to engage the audience well enough to evoke any meaning.
Todd Gilchrist
This is a film about the abuses of privatization and presents a negative view of what might happen if corporate America gets control of the business of corrections. Oct 11, 2003 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This is a film about the abuses of privatization and presents a negative view of what might happen if corporate America gets control of the business of corrections.
Jonathan W. Hickman
There's way too much of the usual bonding, beatings, petty humiliation by guards, cat fights in the yard and trips to the hole. Oct 10, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There's way too much of the usual bonding, beatings, petty humiliation by guards, cat fights in the yard and trips to the hole.
Maitland McDonagh
If Civil Brand hopes to raise awareness or instigate reform, what it really needs is a greater focus on character over convention. Sep 9, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
If Civil Brand hopes to raise awareness or instigate reform, what it really needs is a greater focus on character over convention.
Peter Debruge
Hollywood still doesn?t seem to understand that just because someone can sing doesn't mean they can act. If this film doesn't prove that point, nothing will. Aug 30, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/5
Hollywood still doesn?t seem to understand that just because someone can sing doesn't mean they can act. If this film doesn't prove that point, nothing will.
Blake French
Women behind bars! While that's the perfect set-up for a late-night, soft-core cable movie, this flick is guilty of being nothing more than a jailhouse crock. Aug 29, 2003 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Women behind bars! While that's the perfect set-up for a late-night, soft-core cable movie, this flick is guilty of being nothing more than a jailhouse crock.
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