2022 · drama · family · coming-of-age
Brother
Directed by Clement Virgo2h 0m2022
Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the course of the brothers’ lives forever.
Our read: Brother (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · family · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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