Brooklyn's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
A heartbreaking and poignant story about choices, country, commitments, sacrifice, and love, Brooklyn is a superb, luminous, and bittersweet portrayal of who we are, where we?ve come from, where we?re going, and the places we call home.
The Hollywood Reporter
Classily and classically crafted in the best sense by director John Crowley and screenwriter Nick Hornby, this superbly acted romantic drama is set in the early 1950s and provides the feeling of being lifted into a different world altogether, so transporting is the film?s sense of time and place and social mores.
New York Times
'Brooklyn' endows its characters with desires and aspirations, but not with foresight, and it examines the past with open-minded curiosity rather than with sentimentality or easy judgment.
Empire
Unashamedly romantic and achieved with a beautifully subtle, old-fashioned elegance, it?s a graceful coming-of-age tale ripe for awards.