Hell hath no fury like a woman with a grudge, and in “The Brave One,” Jodie Foster unleashes her rage on the mean streets of New York with the same mesmeric intensity and steely resolve that ...

Darrell Dell’Andrea (dad)Compelling:’The Brave One’ is a good crime drama with a thought-provoking story line. Jodie Foster stars as a beating victim that has turned vigilante. Sh… ...

The Brave One is a confounding movie on many levels. For all its sophistication and sensitivity, it turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even. This revenge fantasy is ...

If “The Brave One” – and I’m still not sure what that title is supposed to mean – were trying merely to make a statement about the paralyzing nature of fear, that would be one thing.

'The Brave One' tries but fails to class-up a revenge story, leaving an unsatisfying mix of nuance and baser elements. Making strange bedfellows - Los Angeles Times ...

Jodie Foster has perfected a gesture over the years that’s as identifiably her own as the caressing, melancholy precision of her alto voice: She cocks her head slightly downward and sideways ...

Death Wish, a vigilante tale that spawned a feature film and four sequels in the seventies and on into the nineties. But then vigilante justice films fell out of popularity only to make a double ...

The Brave One reminds us—twice—that New York City is “the safest big city in the world.” It also subjects a previously happy, well-adjusted New Yorker named Erica Bain (Foster) to a ...

The Brave One (2007) Reviewed by Stella Papamichael ... Following the terminally awful Death Sentence, director Neil Jordan takes a more considered bash at vigilantism in The Brave One.

This time it was the woman with a gun who took control. The revenge thriller “The Brave One,” starring Jodie Foster as a vigilante killer on the streets of New York, knocked the Russell Crowe ...

the jarring finale of “The Brave One” unhinges your jaw you don’t ponder the courage implied by the movie’s title, then you have missed an opportunity to wrestle with your ethics and your ...