My Brother's Wedding

Charles Burnett has an enduring taste and eye for texture. I can't think of a shot in this that doesn't have some wrinkle, some grate or pattern that stands out from the smoothness elsewhere in the frame and lends the film a roughness far more sensuous and suggestive than…

K. Austin Collins

Pierce is, for a time, wholly likable. A sardonic man in a part of Los Angeles that's wrecked by drugs, violence, unemployment, economic hardship, and incarceration. His tensions with his upwardly mobile brother's rich fiancée seem to be an extension of his impatience with…

Joshua Dysart

the higher up you go the lower the people you find.

Sethsreviews

“My Brother’s Wedding” has always been an imperfect masterpiece. It’s gotten that distinction not through any fault in its acting, shooting, or storytelling. But because its director, Charles Burnett, never got to finish the version he originally envisioned.  Burnett’s…

Robert Daniels

Harrowing and affecting in its portraiture of a man who is young enough to know he can be as aimless as he is, but old enough to know he shouldn't be, all the while being pulled in opposing directions of divided loyalties: to family, to friends, and especially to himself.

SupremeLemon (지존레몬)

Charles Burnett's KILLER OF SHEEP successor is sometimes so playful, naive and self-deprecating that the film can largely be seen as an entertainment grenade. At the strategically cleverly dramatized end, MY BROTHERS WEDDING retains an eye for the social detail: our…

shookone

Charles Burnett is best known for his landmark portraits of Black American life, from the aching neorealism of “Killer of Sheep” to the mordant mysticism of “To Sleep with Anger,” his films aim to depict the broken contract the country made with its African American…

Robert Daniels

the details in the relationships are what really work for me. feels like such a fully lived in world that we get a peek into. (director’s cut.)

KYK

Far from the greatest film ever made, but it could very well be my favorite. A tragicomedy about a man stuck between various moral and social dilemmas is the perfect catalyst for a film showcasing the class struggle of black working America. There's something truly special…

baradetski