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Brian Banks
Directed by
Tom Shadyac
PG-13
2019
1h 39m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
7.2
64%
97%
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A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
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Cast of Brian Banks
Aldis Hodge
Brian Banks
Greg Kinnear
Justin Brooks
Tiffany Dupont
Alissa Bjerkhoel
Sherri Shepherd
Leomia
Melanie Liburd
Karina
Dorian Missick
Mick Randolph
Xosha Roquemore
Kennisha Rice
Matt Battaglia
Pete Carroll
Jose Miguel Vasquez
District Attorney Mateo
Morgan Freeman
Jerome Johnson (uncredited)
Collin Taylor
Football player (uncredited)
Brian Banks Ratings & Reviews
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
"Brian Banks" is an OK look at a grave injustice, the kind of film that you can tell while you're watching it ought to be more inspiring, but never quite is.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Brian Banks almost never surprises us. We know where the story is going. (If it didn't go a certain way, there would be no movie.) Still, it's a well-constructed, well-acted, solidly told tale.
AV Club
Jesse Hassenger
This is a movie that seems utterly convinced that it's saying something profound, but proves difficult to actually parse.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
[A] well-intentioned film crippled by its dramatic structure.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
Playing Banks over the course of more than a decade, Hodge consistently makes the movie compelling, even when it veers toward a safe, faith-based uplift.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The true story of a football player falsely accused of sexual assault is lifted by Aldis Hodge in the title role but brought low by a flat, formulaic telling.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
All told, "Brian Banks" might be a bit out of step with its moment. Taken on its own, though, it's a solid and satisfying true-life drama.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The story pulls you along, traveling a long, winding path from wrongful conviction to exoneration.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This movie needed a grittier treatment.
indieWire
Kate Erbland
A Lifetime movie-like drama that falls short of engaging with the many thorny issues it dramatizes.
Washington Post
Alan Zilberman
[A] painful reminder of how young black people still face overwhelming disadvantages.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
The emancipation Brian Banks depicts becomes narrative chains in its wake.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
This is a perfectly serviceable movie -- it's a drama, it's well-acted, it's well-written. It's working, generally speaking.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
Hodge's resolute performance anchors the film, while the nuanced screenplay from Doug Atchison and lush visual language from cinematographer Ricardo Diaz push it several rungs above prosaic TV-movie-style fare.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
For "Brian Banks..." it to succeed we have to buy Banks as an exceptional individual, able to rise above adversity and doubts by virtue of his determination, belief in self and overall strength of personality, all of which Hodge urgently conveys.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
"Brian Banks" isn't a great movie, but it is a worthwhile one.
TheWrap
Candice Frederick
Not only are the women in the film completely underwritten (with Kennisha's depiction particularly woeful), but Shadyac and Atchison also don't really do any favors for their eponymous hero either.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
The real Brian Banks, the subject of this movie, lived through an ordeal that was tragic, inspiring and often profound. However, something is lost in this one-dimensional retelling of his life experiences.
Variety
Peter Debruge
"Brian Banks" may be a football player's underdog story, but this is no conventional sports movie.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Hodge's performance is what keeps the film on track. He is powerful in scenes of anger, but he may be even better in purely silent moments where his unspoken reactions are eloquent.
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