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Let me apologise in advance. I’m going to use one of those review phrases that is so hackneyed and liberally applied that the actual meaning of it has been weakened and ultimately lost in time. It’s a cliché that manages to be both a rather unnecessary indictment of modern cinema and a delusional claim that movies were all brilliant at some point in the imagined past. But trust me, it does mean something. OK, you have been warned – here we go.
They don’t them like Brooklyn any more.
Deadline
Fans of the 1992 fish-out-of-water comedy My Cousin Vinny have always wondered what happened to the characters played by Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei when they rode off at the end of the film. Author…
We Got This Covered
I’m always pleased to see that films like Brooklyn can still be made and become popular today. It feels like a throwback to a more classical form of filmmaking and storytelling, a tale about personal drama rather than grand and sweeping emotions and national conflicts. There is no violence and no massive tragedies; the tragedies are all personal, the conflicts internal, the emotions real and subtle. The Blu-ray release allows the viewer a chance to experience the drama of Brooklyn in a more personal way than a theater can, and for that reason alone I suggest you pick it up.
Film Class Junkies - "But when talking about the depth of Spotlight, the visual perfection of Mad Max and the overall class of 2015 films, Brooklyn begins to get lost in the shuffle."
