Jeremy of The Daily Rotation wrote, "John Crowley‘s Brooklyn is a momentarily great coming-of-age story, set in 1950s Ireland and Brooklyn, New York as a young woman far from home falls in love with a man and her new country, only to be torn back to her old life. Star Saoirse Ronan gives Brooklyn one of her most complicated and fascinating performances yet, while director John Crowley fails to keep the audience engaged as Ronan bounces back-and-forth between two worlds and two men."
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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…
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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."