Cinafilm has over 5 million movie reviews and counting …

About Us
Contact Us
Sitemap
Follow us onCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest

Last updated: 18 Jul 2026 at 12:22 UTC

Back to movie details

Brigsby Bear (2017) - Critic Reviews - Page 6 of 7

101-120 of 137 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 26 Jul 2017

Brigsby Bear is about how the things we love help us find where we belong…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Jul 2017

It elicits more than a few excruciating laugh-out-loud moments, but it’s also tragic and vulnerable — not to mention frequently unpleasant…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jul 2017

Brigsby Bear becomes a winning tribute to the joys of amateur filmmaking, one whose lovingly crafted sets and props recall the handmade sensibility…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Jul 2017

The result is a slight, handcrafted indie that’s sweet, skewed, and feels a bit like a skit stretched out to feature length…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Jul 2017

McCary and Mooney ground this story in sincere emotion and mostly avoid straying into easy-laugh SNL shorts territory…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Jul 2017

Brigsby Bear is so committed to its brand of self-congratulatory uplift that the filmmakers refuse to contemplate any of their material’s…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 26 Jul 2017

Spunky yet maudlin, grim yet heartwarming, the movie—written by Mooney and Kevin Costello—is mainly a batch of hollow gestures…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 26 Jul 2017

Mooney and his pals have created a love letter to nostalgia. Don't dismiss this unorthodox ode to cartoons of old --- it's a treasure…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Andrew Lapin (196) for NPR (1,713) on 26 Jul 2017

The film does have jokes, but Mooney, channeling the spirit of Peter Sellers, delivers them all without even the slightest hint that he knows…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Jul 2017

Its low-gear celebration of fandom-inspired ingenuity, and belief in the power of creating as a reparative balm, earns it enough well-deserved…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jul 2017

The big finale never reaches Chuck & Buck levels of therapeutic catharsis, because Mooney hasn’t really let us see James’ pain, only his…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Joseph Longo (1) for Associated Press (1,685) on 25 Jul 2017

Brigsby Bear offers a glimpse on what makes Mooney and his man-child persona work. There's strength in embracing awkward, childlike wonder…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Jul 2017

Plays like a misbegotten validation of James', and its own target audience's, Peter Pan complex…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Peter Goldberg (21) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jul 2017

The film has such a goofy sense of humor and affection for its premise that its uneven narrative is sometimes only as frustrating as a little…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Alex Arabian (61) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 22 Jul 2017

Brigsby Bear will surprise on several levels, including Mooney's strong writing and acting display, the film's intangible, transcendent tone…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Edward Douglas (1,395) for Den of Geek (424) on 11 Jul 2017

It seems content at being just another Saturday Night Live short…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 07 Jul 2017

A refreshingly original take on a young man who is kidnapped by a couple wanting a child and who later lets loose with his creative urge…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Sarah Ward (538) for Concrete Playground (635) on 03 Jul 2017

Cute yet never cloying, heartfelt but not schmaltzy, and amusing without resorting to caricature... It's a big bear hug of a movie…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Alex Doenau (232) for Trespass (429) on 12 Jun 2017

Brigsby Bear is the sort of festival film that other festival films dream of being…

Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Leslie Felperin (768) for Guardian (4,584) on 24 May 2017

Best not to think about it too hard and just go along for the ride while enjoying Mooney's excellent comic timing and film's loopier notions…

1
...
4
5
6
7

Page 6 of 7

More reviews of this movie:

Brigsby Bear (2017) Movie Reviews (263)
Brigsby Bear (2017) User Reviews (126)

Perhaps you were looking for:

Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

Kyle Mooney - Top 5 movies:

Mark Hamill - Top 5 movies:

Jorge Lendeborg Jr. - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

2004

84%787 Reviews

2001

40%36 Reviews

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

76%849 Reviews

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

1969

58%48 Reviews

1964

78%181 Reviews

2004

55%557 Reviews

2015

78%1,306 Reviews

The Jungle Book

1994

61%159 Reviews

The Basketball Diaries

1995

63%604 Reviews

1999

79%648 Reviews

Faraway, So Close!

1993

67%9 Reviews

All About My Mother

1999

81%36 Reviews

Share This Page

Share

Tweet

Popular Movies Right Now

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

66%228 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

2022

56%11 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

2022

72%115 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

2017

74%263 Reviews

2017

70%609 Reviews

2018

59%1,014 Reviews

2017

73%294 Reviews

Kubo and the Two Strings

2016

80%1,033 Reviews

2000

52%512 Reviews

Jaws: The Revenge

1987

27%759 Reviews

1979

88%914 Reviews

1993

80%619 Reviews

The House Bunny

2008

54%647 Reviews

Get social with CinafilmFollow us for reviews of the latest moviesCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest Cinafilm - RSS

© 2026 Cinafilm Internet Productions

Prime Video logo is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates

Our website support team can be reached by email at [email protected], or by phoning +44 3300 431 396

Cinafilm IP, Office 12693, PO Box 15113, Birmingham, West Midlands, B2 2NJ, United Kingdom