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  • Official Trailer
  • Final Trailer

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), and based on the novel by Patrick deWitt, THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a reimagining of the cinematic Western as a dangerous, witty, and emotionally cathartic exploration of what it means to be a man. It is 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. They have blood on their hands: that of criminals, that of innocents...and they know no state of existence other than being gunmen. The older of the two, introspective Eli (Reilly) rides hard with his younger sibling yet dares to dream of a normal life. The younger of the two, hard-drinking Charlie (Phoenix) has taken charge with gusto as lead man on the duo’s assignments. Each increasingly questions, and quibbles with, the other’s methods. The Sisters brothers find themselves on a journey through the Northwest, bringing them to the mountains of Oregon, a dangerous brothel in the small town of Mayfield, and eventually, the Gold Rush land of California — a journey that will test the deadly family ties that bind. But, can it also be the path to rediscovering what remains of their humanity? THE SISTERS BROTHERS also stars Jake Gyllenhaal as learned scout John Morris and Riz Ahmed as fugitive chemist Hermann Kermit Warm.

Cast

  • John C. Reilly
  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Riz Ahmed
  • Rebecca Root
  • Allison Tolman
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Carol Kane
  • Patrice Cossonneau
  • Zac Abbott

Atom User Reviews

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I want my money back.

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Burt V
Verified Review

Dull, slow, no pay off.

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Elliot C

Metacritic

75
Oct 25, 2018

The Sisters Brothers sneaks its messages in the back door, how a world built on justifiable fear and firearms makes life cheap and souls hollow, how the amorality and violence numbed one and all and how lives back then could be just as angst-ridden as they are today, no matter how quick the “hero” is on the draw.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
75
Sep 26, 2018

There’s a strangeness to certain passages of Sisters that bolsters it through its seedy saloons and cacophonous firefights, and it constitutes the best the film has to offer.

Dominick Suzanne-Mayer
Consequence
75
Sep 20, 2018

It’s something of a hangout Western, too, and its pleasures mostly come down to the company we get to keep with the characters and the actors easing into their eccentricities.

Metacritic review by A.A. Dowd
A.A. Dowd
The A.V. Club