One of my all-time favorite movies.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 15, 2025

I’m a sucker for a good romance. I’m an even bigger sucker when it’s rooted in rich themes and concepts that shine throughout the film. Brooklyn‘s main romance is palpable and breathtakingly beautiful but it’s also cemented in something else.

| Aug 2, 2024

["Brooklyn" is] s a gorgeous filmgoing experience that draws you into the life of its protagonist and her existential trysts as an immigrant and—before that—in her stifling social structure.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

A turn to the past in order to rationalize the present, Brooklyn is a standout example of the forceful, empathetic tempest that cinema is capable of delivering to an audience.

| Aug 1, 2023

While the story is sweet and alluring and the film looks fantastic, this is mainly a sparkling showcase for Saoirse Ronan.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

This is classical filmmaking at its finest, transporting the audience to another time and place to flawlessly recreate the emotional context of Irish immigrants in this setting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 25, 2022

Ronan beautifully captures everything Eilis is feeling and thinking and truly brings the audience into Eilis' struggle and confusion. Brooklyn is well deserving of the Oscar nomination for Best Picture and Ronan for Best Actress.

| Aug 27, 2021

"Brooklyn" is a forthright, approachable, and esteemed historical drama where the dignity and honesty soar to heavenly heights to shine on the plights of love and independence.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 17, 2021

Overall, however, Brooklyn is a pleasant film, but not an especially compelling one.

| Feb 26, 2021

A movie about decisions that makes all the right decisions.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

While there are no explosions and no real antagonist, it's one of those movies that goes straight to the heart of what it means to be human.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 30, 2021

To match the tonal invariability is the perfectly cast Ronan, who is naturally pleasant, seemingly without trying.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education) and director John Crowley (Closed Circuit) also do a terrific job of building the dramatic tension between Eilis's old and new lives.

| Nov 21, 2020

Brooklyn transcend[s] the banality of a happy ending for something murkier and more beautiful.

| Aug 13, 2020

Saoirse Ronan's stellar acting will transport you to the 50's and will make you fall in love with this beautiful love story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2020

A low-key tribute to the better angels of American nature.

| Jan 10, 2020

Phenomenal performances from Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen help to elevate 1950s romantic drama Brooklyn in the 2015 adaptation.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 2, 2020

Brooklyn is sublime viewing; beautiful to look at and lovely to watch, with [Saoirse] Ronan presenting her most mature role to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2019

Full disclosure: I did not expect to cry so much during Brooklyn - the journey of one woman learning to navigate her place in the world.

| Oct 21, 2019

Brooklyn is a beautiful film, in both presentation, with its lush cinematography, and delicate execution.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2019