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- 100ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt has been said that a Monty Python movie is only successful if it offends everyone in the audience at least once. By that measuring stick as well as nearly any other, The Life of Brian is an unqualified triumph. It makes us confront our foibles and laugh at them.
- 100L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyAstringently funny masterpiece.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe more things change, the more we have to laugh if we are to have a prayer of remaining sane, and the Pythons are the best possible step in that direction.
- 88Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy Burr"No God and no religion can survive ridicule," wrote Mark Twain, but for once the sage of Hannibal was wrong.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWhile it may lack the sheer comic anarchy of their other work, Life of Brian may be probably the funniest collective efforts concocted by the British comedy troupe "Monty Python's Flying Circus," is their most sustained effort. (Review of Original Release)
- 75Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyBlessed are the Pythons for making holy wit of the Holy Writ.
- 70The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneFor all its scruffiness, the lurching strike-rate of its gags, and the unmistakable smell of amateur dramatics given off by its repertory of rotating players with their stick-on Ted Nugent beards, Life of Brian jitters with good will. [3 May 2004, p. 110]
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanMonty Python's Life of Brian, re-released on its 25th anniversary as an antidote to "The Passion of the Christ," is a single-joke satire of organized religion, including Hollywood's.
- 30Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrSluggish, repetitive, and strangely timorous, with little of the zap and imagination of the Pythons' television work.