Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

siddharths-22934 Saoirse Ronan shines in the film with her strong acting. This movie deals with several important issues such as homesickness, love, family, and country love. One of the main theme of the film was choices, sometimes in our life we have two options to choose. It's all depends on our minds to choose the right path.

silvana-334-592632 I keep watching it over and over again. I find the characters so intriguing and yet so secretive that I need to keep watching it to try and learn more about them. I find the character of Tony, played by Emory Cohen, just perfectly acted.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Brooklyn" (2015)The picture directed by John Crowley, who made waves early on with an independent production called "Intermission" (2003), also a recommendable watch, gains full directorial strength under leading actress Saoirse Ronan, who plays the U.S. immigrant Eilis from Irland crossing the Atlantic with a lonely suitcase in her hand, making the audience feel what it means to break with the past and encounter a new life in a new world."Brooklyn" establishes classic story-telling from the first minute. The film carried by Saoirse Ronan in a sole act to meet expectation in young actress' career, starting to take shape in 2007 with a decisive role at the age of just 12 in the film "Atonement" directed Joe Wright. Here the actress comes full circle with her evolution as an actress, presenting the journey of the character of Eilis as constant process of learning with the relentless wish to make a living in the new world on the East Coast of the United States of America in the 1950s.The screenplay written by novel author Nick Hornby makes all the right turns to be compelling throughout. The character of Eilis encounters a variety of women at a boarding house at the title-given location, watching them closely to become the woman of taste and knowledge in order to meet a partner for life. 45-year-old director John Crowly captures the very essence of immigration or moving itself by granting the audience Saoirse Ronan's full range of method acting plus an authentic accent.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

TheLittleSongbird Love drama and with a great cast that includes Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent and promising former child actress Saoirse Ronan, talented Nick Horby adapting the lovely gentle read that is the book, 'Brooklyn' seemed my kind of film.My thoughts after seeing 'Brooklyn' was that it was a lovely film. Not quite top 10 of 2015 material but one of the easier to watch and like films of the year, providing that the gentle deliberate pacing does not bother you (it didn't me). 'Brooklyn' has a slight and simple story that doesn't break boundaries, cover new ground and lacks edge, but this does not matter when it is as sweet, charming and touching as it is.Faults are few actually. The final third is a little forced with some of it feeling a bit too neat and a slightly passive indecisiveness, even for her conflicting emotions and difficulties with following her heart, in the lead character that wasn't there for the rest of the film. Despite a natural easy-going chemistry with Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen is a little too laid back in his role that he comes over as dull.Ronan however is terrific, she was a promising child actress as said, here in 'Brooklyn' she comes of age and gives her character nuance and pathos without weakening the character. In support, the standout is the sheer comic delight that is Walters while Broadbent is suitably robust. Domhnall Gleeson is charming.John Crowley keeps things beautifully controlled without slacking. 'Brooklyn' looks beautiful, the 1950s setting is austere yet strikingly evocative and the cinematography positively glows. Michael Brooks' score is subtle but very well suited to the period and the film's tone.Scripting is intelligent, emotion-soaked and has the right amount of charm and sweetness without going sugary or frothy. Some may find that story-wise it's small in scale, being slight and conventional somewhat, but there is no denying that 'Brooklyn' has a big heart and that the love story is beguiling that shows the film making successful efforts at depth and truth.It's as warm as sitting by the fireplace with a pair of slippers on your feet and drinking hot milk and am not the first to admit having tears of joy (there are some understated humorous moments without busting a gut, which was appropriate) and sadness (it's a tear-jerker but doesn't try too hard to be or manipulate people into getting emotional, the emotion is very much genuine). The characters are well written and for what they may lack in depth they more than make up for with heart and charm.Overall, a lovely, beguiling, warm love story that may be small in its scale but when it comes to the heart it couldn't shine any bigger. 8/10 Bethany Cox