Brooklyn

Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: November 4, 2015

7.9	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 448 Ratings

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GDenNov 21, 2015

This movie was a waste of time. I expected more depth but instead it was a silly improbable romance. Our very pretty heroine manages to quickly meet a wonderful guy who is not Irish but Italian. They fall in love. Yawn. But oh no! She must goThis movie was a waste of time. I expected more depth but instead it was a silly improbable romance. Our very pretty heroine manages to quickly meet a wonderful guy who is not Irish but Italian. They fall in love. Yawn. But oh no! She must go back to Ireland. And doesn't she meet another handsome wonderful (rich) guy who falls in love with her too! Amazing. But! Beware of the wicked witch of the town who knows her secret! Gasp. Oh and not only that shes also really really smart. Aces the bookkeeping class. Wow. And she's the only girl in the class too! And then she fills in for her sisters old job and is so good at it that they offer her a permanent position. Wow again. Every female character was so very well dressed and coiffed. Really stretching credulity. Particularly the rather sophisticated bombshell on the ship.
Oh and by the way, Irish and Italian families did not endear themselves to one another quite so prettily. Plus, I doubt if there were any black people on the same beaches as white people. This was closer to a Hallmark or Oprah offering.… Expand

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bigeyesJun 5, 2016

Lovely to look at, and Saoirse Ronan is radiant. However, this movie has in my view been really overrated. Its very generic, by-the-numbers story relies completely on coincidence to drive events, rather than any stirrings or initiative on theLovely to look at, and Saoirse Ronan is radiant. However, this movie has in my view been really overrated. Its very generic, by-the-numbers story relies completely on coincidence to drive events, rather than any stirrings or initiative on the part of the heroine, creating an artificial set of ironies and dilemmas and a weirdly lifeless, schematic, almost embalmed feeling. All of the characters and settings are utterly one-dimensional. Eilis's beloved mother hardly talks, her sister is a tragic saint, her best friend cute and sweet, the woman she works for is an evil witch. Eilis herself for that matter seems like a complete cipher--a person that things simply happen to. In America, her new boyfriend Tony is pure-hearted and noble--period. The streets of Brooklyn are nearly empty and completely devoid of danger or even texture. Even the Italian family dinner that Tony takes Eilis to is weirdly subdued--out of six people, including three young adult brothers, who in any real family would be talking over each other and teasing each other, the only person who says anything--literally, anything--is their precocious, wise-ass 8-year-old kid brother. Screenwriter Nick Hornsby is a clever writer, but I think he probably could do just so much with this story (I tried reading the novel and gave up--it came off like a young-adult novel and was just not an interesting read.). There are a couple of good moments where a moment of spontaneous life fizzes into being despite the labored artificiality, but these are extremely few and far between. Worth seeing for the nice photography and Ronan's lovely open face and expressive ice-blue eyes--as long as you keep your expectations low for much more than that.… Expand

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