AVClub: Brooklyn is a very nice movie. It’s an arthouse picture for people who don’t frequent arthouses—a tale of cultural displacement so sanitized and swooningly romantic that film buffs could recommend it to their parents and grandparents without hesitation. All of that may sound like a slam, but it’s not meant to be. It’s not easy to make a movie as beautiful as Brooklyn, where the stakes are low but the outcome really matters. This is an old-fashioned entertainment, but one so masterfully crafted and heartfelt that it’s hard not to love.
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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."
