Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958) by Private U — 06 Oct 2007

Yul brynner rocks! shatner can act! well, could act. this is good. see it. you'll never fuckin' read the book and you know it.

This review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958) was written by Private U on 06 Oct 2007.

The Brothers Karamazov has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of The Brothers Karamazov

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Christian H (513) on 28 Nov 2013

Tough to fit the whole novel into a film even if it was three hours…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By George R (219) on 15 Nov 2009

An all-star cast featuring young actors Richard Basehart and William Shatner as well some current screen favorites of the time -- Yul Brynner,…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Timothy H (303) on 20 Nov 2012

Early morning, on vacation, flipping through the channels, come across this on TMC = watching…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Kristie H (27) on 09 Jul 2010

I read the book a couple of years ago (and didn't really like it), but the movie wasn't much of an improvement on the book…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Abigail D (51) on 13 Jan 2008

This film does the book good justice. A good effort to get 1000 pages into and hour and a half…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Variety Staff (1,156) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Apr 2008

Bold handling of crude unbridled passion, of violently conflicting ideas, and of earthy humor makes up The Brothers Karamazov…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Adrienne K (69) on 28 Dec 2008

I first saw this movie in my youth and was mesmorised by Yul Brynner's deliverey of yet another regal commanding perfomance as Dimitri…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

While not as terrible as his subsequent adaptation of Lord Jim, this 1958 Hollywoodization of the Dostoyevsky novel by writer-director Richard…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Louis L (102) on 30 Aug 2009

The 1958 movie is an affront to Dostoyevsky. Richard Brooks butchered the plot…

Read Review

Review of The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

By Tamara S (188) on 22 Oct 2007

Yul Brynner rocks cos he is a Russian (Yuli Borisovich Bryner) but not American so actually he plays his own story and folk…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Eat Pray Love (2010)

By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 06 Jan 2011

Julia's late career seems an apologia for buying someone else's husband and getting away with it, for the most part, in the court of public opinion…

Read Review

Review of Beastly (2011)

By Bart (242) on 04 Mar 2011

Too bad the production did not hire a writer or an actor for this piece of garbage, otherwise it may have had potential…

Read Review

Review of The Martian (2015)

By Albannach (1) on 20 Dec 2015

I genuinely don't understand why this clichéd garbage is getting such high reviews! I thought it was awful…

Read Review

Review of Charlie St. Cloud (2010)

By Heyitsmegrif4 (255) on 31 Dec 2011

Zac Efron gives all his dramatic acting talent (which isn't much) and tries really hard to save this clear rip-off of the lovely bones…

Read Review

Review of Traces of Sandalwood (2014)

By Barbra T (1) on 22 Jul 2015

A tale of two sisters. When two nations and it's two different culture meets. Well, I have been waiting for this movie since not so long…

Read Review

Review of War of the Buttons (1994)

By Jane H (144) on 17 Mar 2006

Erm about a war were they steal each others buttons. I never quite get why they bothered to make this film…

Read Review

Review of The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

By Scott C (2,765) on 30 Mar 2013

This movie was sooo boring! Maybe I was too young and immature when I saw it, but man did it make me squirm in my seat…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

The Menu

2022

70%145 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Brothers Karamazov

1958

63%21 Reviews

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

2008

72%801 Reviews

Hit & Run

2012

55%651 Reviews

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

1982

47%779 Reviews

Child's Play 2

1990

57%630 Reviews

My Father the Hero

1991

57%150 Reviews

Free to Play

2014

69%13 Reviews

Despicable Me 3

2017

57%1,116 Reviews

Pieces

1982

56%207 Reviews

Hocus Pocus

1984

63%540 Reviews