Bronson

“With a grabbag of visual and sonic tricks borrowed from the likes of Kubrick and Peter Greenaway, Refn stages Bronson as a kind of sociopathic vaudeville, as Peterson (played with an all-consuming mania by actor Tom Hardy) recounts his life before an audience, while a series of abstract formalist flashbacks illustrate his violent journey from the crib to various other barred enclosures.” (Scott Foundas; The Village Voice) “Ferraris are meant to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph within seconds, not movies. But someone forgot to tell that to Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (The Pusher Trilogy, Fear X) regarding this powerful and rigorously stylish tragicomedy, which builds to a primal scream during a bravura opening sequence, then maintains the intensity, with bleak humor and unexpected pathos, for an hour and a half.” (Aaron Hillis; GreenCine Daily)