A working-class gangster pic whose protagonist is a more reluctant criminal than most, Jeremie Guez's Brothers by Blood adapts Pete Dexter's 1991 novel Brotherly Love.
Sharp-eyed readers will have guessed that the action is set in Philadelphia, and the film's feel for its post-industrial, gray-skies setting is one of its main assets.
Outranking that is star Matthias Schoenaerts, whose taciturn character would much rather hone his boxing skills than help run his family's illicit business.
But the picture rarely makes that business much to look at, providing some kind of energy to offset the actor's appropriate reserve.
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