Geoghegan's chamber horror Brooklyn 45 assembles a gallery of war dogs in the immediate aftermath of WWII to drink, tell their hoary stories of survival and the terrible things they've seen...

| Jan 4, 2024

Writer/director Ted Geoghegan manages to pack a lot of neat ideas into this 90-minute thriller. The film plays a lot into PTSD, xenophobia, and contending with one’s actions during a hostile situation that really clicked.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 23, 2023

Brooklyn 45 fills every crack and crevice of its taut 92 minutes. The walls of this singular room grow to cover miles, speaking to much more than a seance gone wrong.

| Jul 25, 2023

A well acted, unique and surprisingly deep single location thriller, Brooklyn 45 struggles to find it's footing at first, but the further it's themes are explored, the more competent it becomes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2023

Brooklyn 45 nails all the details, the pacing, the dialogue, the period details.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2023

Ted Geoghegan uses the supernatural to speak of the real-life horrors of World War II. While there is an actual haunting occurring, it is somewhat less frightening than the spectre of war and what it has done to a group of old friends.

| Jun 21, 2023

Brooklyn 45, is an atmospheric spine tingling tale that’s as focused on the scares as it is churning out a well crafted pot-boiler.

| Jun 20, 2023

The film is engaging and, at times, unpredictable. Still, it is by no means perfect. There are certain awkward exchanges of dialogue in which the old-fashioned language cannot excuse a lack of fluency and rhythm.

| Jun 17, 2023

Brooklyn 45 has some entertaining elements, but the movie needed to push itself further to achieve greatness.

| Jun 15, 2023

Setting aside any potential bias, I think it’s Ted’s best film to date and very different from his previous two films.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 15, 2023

It can be enjoyed as an old-fashioned chamber-piece, with some added morbid modern-day visuals to stir things up.

| Original Score: B | Jun 15, 2023

Ted Geoghegan's moody chamber piece is aided by a solid cast who build upon the internal horror of looking for an enemy when there are no more left to fight.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2023

I like the script a lot. In execution it's a little stagey... [But] I felt that this had some really good veers.

| Jun 13, 2023

The cast has to walk a fine line, though they do behave as people might under extraordinary and extraordinarily unnerving circumstances. None is better at this than Ms. Ramsay, who executes remarkably natural acting under unnatural conditions

| Jun 13, 2023

Brooklyn 45 is what happens when an experienced filmmaker finds their voice and brings everything together.

| Jun 13, 2023

This is a claustrophobic chamber piece, utterly character-driven, and confined to a single room for the most part. Thankfully, there’s so much gorgeous detail that you don’t mind being stuck there, especially with these people.

| Jun 13, 2023

A pressure cooker of a period picture, Brooklyn 45 is a smart take on the spooky séance staple, a film where the scariest spectres are the ghosts of the past rather than any pixel-packed phantoms.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2023

This movie is mostly an exercise in retro pulp, but it’s a well-made one with some sharper points lurking beneath the old-fashioned style.

| Jun 12, 2023

An effective combination of theatrical-style drama and gory horror.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 12, 2023

Brooklyn 45 is everything an independent horror movie should be: by turns scary, funny, and heartbreaking, and far too personal to have been created by committee.

| Jun 12, 2023