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

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 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

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

Geoghegan never takes the easy way out, asking tough questions and leaving it up to the audience to ascertain the majority of the answers for themselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2023

Ghosts and spirits appear, and weird things are indeed summoned, but "Brooklyn 45" is really a meditation on grief and the unfinished business of war as experienced by a group who struggle with adjusting to peacetime.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2023

It delivers supernatural and Earthly suspense in a period-piece package whose wit and personality help overshadow its rougher bump-in-the-night patches.

| Jun 8, 2023

“Brooklyn 45” is overlong, repetitive and at times wearyingly stagy.

| Jun 8, 2023

None of the film’s goopy, gory moments can rescue it from its own determination to center its most cardboard conflict.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2023

The film impresses as a well-crafted period piece with some pointed observations about paranoia and xenophobia that feel, discomfortingly, as relevant as recent news reports about over-reactions by stand-your-ground shooters.

| May 12, 2023

Give me a flawed film that’s willing to be this personal, unexpected, and thematically complex over a more traditional genre piece any day.

| Mar 17, 2023

The tremendous cast is the selling point in this period-set chamber piece that gives precedence to fraught tension among friends over conventional scares.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2023

the ghosts raised at the table are reflections of these characters’ innermost consciences, as they become locked not just into the parlour room, but into their own damaged sense of righteousness and integrity.

| Mar 14, 2023