Only the Brave's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Blending real-life heroism with awesome disaster-movie spectacle, this portrait of the Granite Mountain Hotshots deservedly celebrates the courage to fight wildfires.
Chicago Sun-Times
It plays like a classic military story about soldiers from various walks of life who bond as brothers.
Screen Daily
Kosinski settles for a simplistic ending, and the film can?t avoid certain narrative predictability, but for all its conventionality, it?s also brave enough to push against those conventions to find the humanity within its heroes.
The Hollywood Reporter
An engaging account of a tragic real-life story.
Los Angeles Times
While Only the Brave is consistently involving and entertaining, that desire to be accurate about a heroic reality proves to be an at times awkward fit with the conventions of this kind of earnest and old-fashioned Hollywood film.
The Guardian
The tragic true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots gets a starry and often powerful treatment but suffers from flashes of overly sentimental cliche.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote