BROS

"When the balance between the rom, the com and the commentary works, Bros really flies."

"The suspense comes in watching Eichner struggle to reconcile his galaxy-brained cynicism with mainstream rom-com touchstones..."

"Its perpetual commentary on the mainstreaming of queerness remains at odds with its very desire to tell its story within the Hollywood system."

"Ultimately, Bros is a genuinely funny movie with nuanced emotional heft. It’s a refreshing and vulnerable take on the genre..."

"Romcom elements, including a montage... land as more clichéd than subversive. But that doesn't make the rest of this charming film any less entertaining and effective."

"Sexy, messy, and joyful, and informed less by a sense of its own importance than by a vague uncertainty that it may have arrived too late to the party."

"Eichner’s gay homage to the great American romcoms of yesterday looks and feels exactly like them, and that’s groundbreaking enough."

"Minor faults notwithstanding, Bros is an excellent comedy, both as an expression of classical romance on screen, and one of a queerer, more diverse variety."

"It’s fascinating and a little sad to watch a unique voice, with excitingly specific talents, do someone else’s material."

"If anything, Bros ends up feeling like it could have been much queerer."

"The movie... moves past breezy Apatovian allusiveness into a realm of media criticism as snarky as it is scholarly."

"It's... cast very much in the mould of the best kind of Apatow: whip-smart, soft at heart, full of bravura free-form character bits and cul-de-sacs."