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    Brightburn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

    Timothy Williams

    • 1 Timothy WilliamsBrightburn 1:09
    • 2 Timothy WilliamsBreyer Family 1:26
    • 3 Timothy WilliamsI'm Very Special 2:32
    • 4 Timothy WilliamsYou Okay? 1:21
    • 5 Timothy WilliamsCalled to the Barn 4:20
    • 6 Timothy WilliamsSharp Object Meet Eyeball 1:51
    • 7 Timothy WilliamsDear God 1:16
    • 8 Timothy WilliamsWho Am I? 2:29
    • 9 Timothy WilliamsDon't Tell the Sherriff 1:41
    • 10 Timothy WilliamsReal Real Bad Things 2:17
    • 11 Timothy WilliamsBrandon's Power 1:23
    • 12 Timothy WilliamsUrges 2:12
    • 13 Timothy WilliamsRevelations 2:03
    • 14 Timothy WilliamsTime to Run 2:10
    • 15 Timothy WilliamsComing Home 3:05
    • 16 Timothy WilliamsDistress Call 2:22
    • 17 Timothy WilliamsThe Hunt 1:37
    • 18 Timothy WilliamsIt's Time 1:53
    • 19 Timothy WilliamsTori and Brandon 2:26
    • 20 Timothy WilliamsBrandon Unleashed 0:52

    5

    « Imagine What He Could Become»
    Country
    Runtime 1 hr 30 min
    Budget $7 000 000
    Premiere: World $33 224 654 May 9, 2019
    USA $17 300 439
    Other countries $15 924 215
    Box Office – Budget $26 224 654
    Premiere: USA $17 300 439 May 24, 2019
    first day $3 000 854
    first weekend $7 845 658
    theaters 2607
    rollout 222 days
    Digital: World August 6, 2019
    Parental Advisory
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      plenty

    • Violence & Gore

      plenty

    • Profanity

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Sex & Nudity

      few

    Production Companies

    About the film Brightburn

    An alien that looks like a human boy uses its powers in sinister and destructive ways.

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    Production

    The film was announced in December 2017, then untitled, with James Gunn as a producer, his brother Brian and cousin Mark writing the script, and David Yarovesky directing; The H Collective was fully financing, and producing with James Gunn's Troll Court Entertainment banner. In March 2018, Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Meredith Hagner and Matt Jones were cast. Gunn was set to appear on a panel to discuss the project at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2018, but his appearance was canceled after news broke that Disney had fired Gunn as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) due to offensive tweets; Gunn would later be reinstated by that October, with his return publicly revealed in March 2019.

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    Critique: 59

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    As an antihero with an oedipal complex, neither Brandon nor Dunn is sufficiently creepy or conflicted to launch a new franchise.

    This film draws its strength in part from its willingness to be a more humbly scaled operation than the tentpoles weighted down by mandates fo...

    There’s some truly nasty stuff here – both violence-wise and in its outlook on evil – but it still somehow manages to be fun amid all the...

    Brightburn risks falling into the all-too-familiar creepy kid horror formula but there’s just about enough to distinguish it from that ever-e...

    A machine to deliver gore and violence, Brightburn also features some of the most improbably and even hatefully dumb salt-of-the-Earth type charact...

    The film’s bent towards revisionist superhero history is certainly compelling, but stuck in the confines of the horror genre, it flames out far mor...

    For such a specific, clever-on-paper idea, Brightburn follows a shockingly predictable turn of events, possibly because it has few refere...

    It’s «The Bad Seed meets The Omen,” and it’s predictable, plodding and dim-witted every step of the way. To be fair, if you like watching someone p...

    Although Brightburn’s final seconds hint at James' more finely attuned cinematic sensibilities the film is not nearly as strong as its villai...

    While not exactly original, the premise is certainly effective enough. But Brightburn lacks the visual stylization or wit to elevate it from the re...

    It’s a fine and distinct funhouse ride designed to elicit cackles, then be forgotten about by the next ride.

    The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.

    Brightburn is not a major film, but it’s a genuinely provocative one, a hand grenade tossed out into the pop culture arena.

    Brightburn can at least boast an interesting premise – not that it does anything with it.

    Brightburn doesn’t take its satire to any kind of satisfying extreme – although a mid-credits stinger does include a larger joke at work – bu...

    The conceit works brilliantly until, in the closing 20 minutes, it clatters disappointingly into a fatal uncertainty.

    «Brightburn» was a good idea. Unfortunately the creativity stopped there.

    While we can perhaps be grateful that the superficiality of Brightburn probably kept it from opting to exploit elements of disturbed-kid narratives...

    The terror is baked in – what if a super-strong space alien crashed to Earth and wanted to kill everyone? now that’s an idea right...

    If the filmmakers had a modicum of curiosity about the implications of their own idea, the movie might have had something interesting to say.

    The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.

    Because the film that this broadside of brass describes is ultimately, seriously, «Duuuumb!»

    The movie is more or less all premise. The rest is just an occasionally suspenseful, occasionally gory sci-fi riff on any number of earthbound cree...

    Brightburn is a generally humorless affair, with the only «laughs» given a sadistic edge, with paint-by-numbers frights and cut-and-paste...

    Superman is mighty scary as a slasher villain.

    Several visuals – and the accompanying crunches and gurgles – will make appearances in my nightmares.

    It’s a film that’s good enough that you want it to be better, a rare genre example of less not proving to be more.

    The premise is intriguing, but this gruesome origin story plays like just another slasher film with idiots for victims.

    While not exactly original, the premise is certainly effective enough. But Brightburn lacks the visual stylization or wit to elevate it from the re...

    Despite its simplicity, Brightburn’s premise is filled with potential, but it struggles to find anything meaningful to say.

    The premise isn’t bad, even if the evil-Superman origin story was done better in «Chronicle.» The execution, however, is lacking, particularl...

    I wish there were more to Brightburn.

    If the goals were a little more clear, the film could’ve been better…they could’ve played with the audiences' expectations much mo...

    Brightburn is rich with references and genre expectations.

    What makes «Brightburn» a little better than average is the time it spends observing Brandon with Tori and Kyle, his loving, increasingly alar...

    The movie rattles through ninety minutes of episodic jolts, the visual style is jumbled. Distinctive only in having a better effects budget than yo...

    Crossbreeding superhero tropes with horror staples was an idea laden with promise. Brightburn is enlivened by trademark James Gunn black comedy, bu...

    The film is not nearly as strong as its villain. It is, however, just as immature.

    Most of Brightburn belabors the obvious.

    Crossbreeding superhero tropes with horror staples was an idea laden with promise. Brightburn is enlivened by trademark James Gunn black comedy, bu...

    This is primarily a character study, about that thin line between heroism and horror.

    What If baby Superman broke bad? A great premise gets seriously squandered in this ridiculous superhero/horror movie mash-up. The only thing truly...

    A cure for superhero movie fatigue, this lean, gory horror film…has a coherent narrative and pays off with a bang.

    The only creepy things about Brightburn, though, are its labored, derivative narrative, its giddy sadism (it gets off on Brandon’s adolescent power...

    Its harsh, pitiless violence could earn it a cult, but it’s ultimately a workmanlike movie playing at being something more renegade...

    In its attempts to provide an antidote to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s catalogue of liberal fantasies, the film swings too far in the other dire...

    Director David Yarovesky does the fantasy stuff with flair. And the dafter the plot gets, the better the acting conjured from Elizabeth Banks as fo...

    The gore and the scares work pretty well.

    It may be an elevator pitch stretched to 90 minutes, and never aspires to more than that, but it’s a fine and distinct funhous...

    The final effect… is a disheartening vacuum. Having torn down a myth, it leaves little but a dropped mic in its wake.

    An extremely dark, violent alt take on the superhero origin story. David Yarovesky and co. push it to such an extent that 'Brightburn' likely won&r...

    Brutal and bludgeoning, David Yarovesky’s Brightburn is a film designed to knock the breath from your chest and subvert expectations.

    What if Superman started out evil? And what if that was the only idea you had for your movie?

    When the end credits roll, it’s hard to decide whether the most appropriate feeling should be disgust, despair, or despondency. This is one of 2019...

    Brightburn doesn’t ask if you want blood, but you’ve damn-well got it in this nastily gruesome superhero hack-n-slash that’s ...

    What it lacks in any greater meaning, it makes up for with good old B-movie gore. It’s a demon child story wearing the mask of a superhe...

    A machine to deliver gore and violence, Brightburn also features some of the most improbably and even hatefully dumb salt-of-the-Earth type charact...

    It’s a nasty piece of work, and one that at the very least stands as an active interruption of the escapist, family-friendly superhero fare cu...

    The film is a gem, especially for anyone yearning for a superhero film that gleefully torches the familiar «good versus evil» formula and...

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    • An interesting and original idea about an evil Superman.
    • Good acting, especially by the lead actor.
    • Captivating atmosphere and suspense until the end.
    • Some spectacular and visually beautiful shots.
    • An unconventional approach to the classic superhero story.
    • Weak screenplay and direction.
    • Use of genre tropes and clichés.
    • Predictable and disappointing ending.
    • Insufficient development of the characters' motivations.
    • The film feels like a collection of poorly connected scenes.

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    Watched

    Evil Superman Origin: The idea is good, but the implementation is full of genre cliches

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    Watched

    Another movie, the authors of which decided that motivation is an atavism and, well, fuck it. Increasingly, this approach is taken by horror writers. I strongly disagree with this, but for the rest – thumbs up, as they say. Atmospheric, the killings are brutally inventive, the effects are frighteningly good

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    Watched

    I was taken in by the trailer and the poster – I liked the villain’s costume. But in the end, it was a complete disappointment. The film is very weak and incoherent. In fact, a set of a whole series of cliches, and also poorly sewn.

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    Watched

    A great «what if Superman was bad» idea was ruined by a shaky camera, silly characters, and mediocre performances by most of the cast. We have to admit that there were some super beautiful shots. All horror is about showing human mutilation. Dumb.

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    Watched

    Oh, that’s too bad. The best thing about the movie is the scene before the credits.

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