"My favorite line in Rian Johnson’s crafty crime caper, The Brothers Bloom, comes early on when a young girl eager to fall hook, line and sinker for the yarn being spun before her turns on a skeptic and says, “Shut up, Dave.” Those three words speak to the role that storytelling plays in our lives, its unique capacity for making lives better if only we will it to do so. In a genre often regarded more for its detached sense of cool above any real sense of character, it’s strange to see a con man movie be this funny and warm-hearted, refreshingly un-cynical in its inevitable effort to trick the audience as much as its characters. For these two hours, all the Daves of the world can go stuff it."

— Sir William Goss, ranking Bloom #7 on his well chosen 10 best of the year at efilmcritic.com.