It's tearjerking, but at times feels like a Hallmark card.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2024

It is the mix of that tone and the fantastic filmmaking within it that elevates it from a lovely film to a gorgeous piece of cinematic history that is sure to please all audiences.

| Mar 1, 2024

While it is admirable how the director achieves all this without relying on superfluous artistic pretensions, the film is not entirely successful in capturing the complexity of the sociopolitical conflict... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 5, 2023

Belfast is a simple story about complex times. Those looking for a deeply political film will not find it; instead, it is a tender piece about family and place. Branagh’s most personal film is his best in a very long time.

| Sep 17, 2023

Belfast has its moments – most of them featuring Judi Dench and Ciaran Hinds as Buddy's grandparents – but the film grates as inauthentic and contrived.

| Aug 22, 2023

A cinematic treat. Kenneth Branagh’s personal story here brings you into The city of Belfast to experience every bit of culture & history. It’s movies like this that remind me WHY I LOVE going to the movies.

| Jul 26, 2023

Belfast is infused with Branagh’s love of film and film history.

| Jul 25, 2023

Though it plays it safe with the subject matter, Belfast is a beautifully shot and authentically uplifting movie that explores how important the things and people you love can be during a time of crisis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Belfast, at its heart, stands as a brilliantly performed, delicately written family drama that is a delight to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Equal parts funny, heartwarming, and deeply tender—Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is an emotionally compelling masterpiece full of refinements.

| Jul 23, 2023

Sir Kenneth Branagh constructs a perfect poetic tribute to his hometown about a period of his childhood that could’ve easily become another story about The Troubles. Instead, it’s only one faction of his nostalgia filled with joy, humor, and consequences.

| Feb 21, 2023

Horrendously twee

| Dec 30, 2022

It is about the specific, formative, traumatic, sweet and melancholic moments left over from an interrupted childhood. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 29, 2022

[Branagh’s] vision is a joyous celebration and a refreshing critical eye of the family and the community where he grew up. A film that is brimming with those wholly mindful moments that remind you what makes life worth living.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

Belfast is cinema at its most magical and moving – a compassionate ode to childhood full of passionate performances from its exceptional ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

What Branagh fails to understand is there is a difference between filtering an observed experience through a child's point-of-view, and treating the viewers like they were children.

| Aug 29, 2022

A beautiful and emotional film that is inherently moving, Branagh tips the scales to the cheesy.

| Aug 24, 2022

That idea of family burns at the heart of “Belfast”, an earnest, sincere and utterly irresistible movie that had me in its grip from start to finish.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Branagh employs a number of Van Morrison songs to lay the nostalgic charm on and even if some of them are anachronistic, it works.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2022

A sweet, neat and light but still vivid and soulful snapshot of growing up amid swelling uncertainty.

| Jun 25, 2022