Brooklyn arrives duly hyped, and disappoints just as reliably.

| Sep 28, 2017

Brooklyn is one of the best films ever made about leaving one's homeland in search of a better life, and forging a new path. [Full review in Japanese]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 19, 2016

Brooklyn is marvelous, watching it as close to pure bliss as any cinematic confectionary treat as I could possibly have imagined myself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2016

Brooklyn is the very essence of a simple story, beautifully told.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2016

'Brooklyn' might sound like some sort of starchy period piece, which couldn't be further from the truth - it's vibrant and warm and funny.

| May 3, 2016

Part of the film's charm is the way that Irish director John Crowley manages the mood, without compromising the momentum. His direction is impeccable.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 12, 2016

Ronan's accomplished performance provides the heart of the film, and, despite the mistakes she makes, the viewer comes to care deeply for this young woman and hope for a happy outcome to her dilemmas.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 5, 2016

Brooklyn at heart is a women's picture, that staple of mid-century cinema in which a woman must choose her path in life, and the film adapts the genre's traditions splendidly.

| Jan 6, 2016

I could have hung out with everyone in Brooklyn for hours: It's a world you won't want to leave.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 31, 2015

It's a witty, dreamy love letter to independence and self-discovery - no matter where you call home.

| Nov 24, 2015

Fans of the novel, of which I'm one, may find the film sweeter and more romantic than Toibin's original conception.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2015

Ronan, in every scene of the film, creates a reserved young woman who seems to mature before our eyes, quietly revealing Eilis' open, yearning heart.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2015

Brooklyn is a simple story affectingly told, bridging the emotional gulf one feels when ambition and home are an ocean apart and love is uncertain in either place.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 19, 2015

Brooklyn is that rare period drama that doesn't lose itself in its dogged re-creation of another time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2015

It's such a beautiful film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015

Big, romantic and as sweet as wedding cake, Brooklyn is a bi-continental love story that proudly wears its heart on its well-crafted sleeve.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015

If you're yearning to take a sentimental journey, Brooklyn is the perfect destination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015

If you think they don't make movies like they used to, "Brooklyn" is glorious proof to the contrary.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2015

Brooklyn is one of the best movies of 2015.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 13, 2015

This could feel like an airport romance novel about a girl whose life is transformed by love, but Ronan complicates Eilis's otherwise simple story arc as much as she can.

| Nov 13, 2015