When critics lose their equilibrium

Honor among thieves? How ’bout solidarity between film critics?

But sometimes critics take a brief leave of their senses, and it’s only proper to call them on it.

Hopefully, WWTW readers will do the same for me should my keyboard take an ungainly detour.

Here’s The New York Times’ A.O. Scott addressing “Bronson,” the electric new film about England’s worst inmate.

The film follows the incorrigible Michael Peterson, later nicknamed Charlie Bronson after the late “Death Wish” star, as he beats, batters and bullies anyone who crosses his path in and out of prison.

Here’s how Scott wraps his review:

“Bronson” invites you to admire its protagonist as a pure, muscular embodiment of anarchy. And perhaps you will, but you may also be glad that he’s still behind bars.

May?? May???

The man is a menace, someone who if the film is even vaguely accurate shouldn’t spend so much as five minutes outside of a jail cell.

(Photo: Tom Hardy gives a remarkably vivid performance in “Bronson,” the true story of a prisoner who has spent 30 of his 34 years behind bars in solitary for his unruly behavior. Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.)

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