Belfast
Focus Features | Release Date: November 12, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 55 Critic Reviews
Positive:
47
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJan 21, 2022
Branagh doesn’t seem as eager as Cuaron to interrogate his own memories, or to reckon with how the protective veil of one’s parents can shield a child from reality. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 4, 2021
It’s a pity this one isn’t a little more distinctive and sharply honed. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Nov 10, 2021
This may, in content, be the most “personal” film in the up-and-down career of the classically trained stage and screen veteran. But however autobiographical the material, Branagh approaches it from a curious remove: He’s made a memoir that’s tenderly nostalgic in the broad strokes without ever locking the audience into an emotional perspective. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangNov 11, 2021
There is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every impulse toward cutesiness in check. The tone is stringently measured. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 13, 2021
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and this scattershot crowd-pleaser renders them both in such broad strokes that it seems as if Branagh can only imagine the Belfast of his youth as a brogue-accented blend of other movies like it. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansJan 23, 2022
Kenneth Branagh’s unabashedly feelgood memoir of growing up in Belfast as the Troubles erupted in the late 1960s suffers from a problem of perspective. Read full review
40
Little White LiesHannah StrongJan 21, 2022
This story about growing up amid the onset of The Troubles should be more emotionally and politically potent than it is. Instead, it’s a careful, uncontroversial (and thereby unremarkable) film that fails to exert any lasting impact after the credits roll. Read full review
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