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(1 - 13) of 13 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1   "in 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."   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel B "An unnerving, barking-mad black comedy surveying the fractured mind of "the most violent prisoner in Britain," the picture is a divisive beast, shimmying between cracking wise and cracking skulls, often erratically so."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "animalistic"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin B- "A kind of second cousin to Paolo Sorrentino's "Il Divo" (2008), "Bronson" shares that film's mechanical sense of ambivalent regard for its subject'"   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey B "Stylish kick ass sympathetic but revealing biopic of the notorious and pitiful British felon Michael Gordon Peterson."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "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."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 27/100 "A determinedly ugly movie, as brutish in its delivery as its subject is brutish in character, Bronson fails to offer meaningful insight into the life of a singularly idiotic individual."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman B- "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."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/4 "Bronson is a fast, ferocious, wickedly funny portrait of one man's acceptance of his bone-deep animalism."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager B "Writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn uses some inventive theatrical interludes and soliloquies to diversify what might have otherwise been a rather one-note depiction of prison life."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "...not a great film but garners a strong performance from its star [Tom Hardy]."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "Dark, intelligent and disturbing, supported by a force-of-nature lead performance and a clever screenplay."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 8/10 "[Tom Hardy gives] one of the best performances of the year, maybe. It is certainly one of the most committed."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 13) of 13 OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh Page   1