Rent Brooklyn (2015)

At last a well acted film. - Brooklyn review by NC

No computer graphics, no exploding livers, yet can sit and watch all the way through without loss of concentration on what is going on. Used to be called "acting in films".

Combine film with Canada etc, which always seems to work well. Not a multi million dollar budget i suspect. Must really annoy Spielberg and Brad etc.

Saoirse is brilliant. With Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent would think she an old hand............ and they, of course, do the biz, as always. At least they given some decent lines for once............

A Country Girl's Dilemma - Brooklyn review by MW

A slight but engaging tale of a young woman's escape from a claustrophobic provincial existence in 1950s Ireland to the exciting possibilities of big-city life in New York. Saoirse Ronan is the beautiful, fresh-faced ingénue torn between lovers poor and rich, as well as loyalty to her past, whose mind is finally made up by the stifling bigotry and wagging tongues of Irish country life. It's a story full of charm.

Really enjoyable - Brooklyn review by EC

I didn't have the chance to see this at the cinema so was really looking forward to it. I wasn't disappointed. The characters were strong and Saoirse Ronan was brilliant. I would definitely recommend this.

Simply beautiful. - Brooklyn review by CC

The trailers had lead me to expect a slightly different film to the one I got - and I was much more pleased with it that I expected to be.

The ability of Saoires Ronan to act her socks off with the slightest twitch of her face makes this film into an amazing insight into one person's fear, longing and growth into confidence.

A wonderful, wonderful film which is as beautiful as it is powerful.

Very Ordinairy - Brooklyn review by AK

I thought I'd like this a lot, and had heard good things about the book and the film, but it was a hard slog.

Everyone and everything in Ireland and in Brooklyn was terribly clean and well scrubbed, with none of the drear and grime that you would associate with the era. Although they went to the trouble of filming the Brooklyn exteriors in Montreal as Brooklyn looks, apparently, too modern, the brownstones in Montreal look as if they might as well be in Williamsburg, and they might as well have been filmed on a backlot for all the atmosphere they generate.

Add a boring, linear and predictable plot plus the most irrational behaviour from the lead character and throw in a one-in-a-million coincidence "twist" before winding it up with those deadly cinematic devices all in a row: slow-motion reunion, patronising voice-over and freeze frame. It's a hard, if not impossible film to warm to, just a series of cliches and soap operatics as well as cloying Oirishness, to be sure. You don't have think too hard to know what kind of role Julie Walters plays, and Jim Broadbent appears as Barry Fitzgerald. A major disappointment and a waste of time.

Overrated - Brooklyn review by RS

Brooklyn is beautifully acted and filmed, but has ponderous pacing, and is just a bit dull. The plot follows an Irish girl emigrating to the USA and making a life for herself in New York. To describe the plot further would spoil the movie, because there really isn't very much more plot to describe. I can see why this film would resonate with an Irish or Irish-American audience since it deals with Irish emigrant experience, but others may find themselves dozing off.

What's all the fuss about? - Brooklyn review by BE

Seen at the cinema. Although it is well crafted, I found the movie to be plain, tedious and ultimately depressing. It may be that I can relate the scenario to a period in my own life. Julie Walters just plays Julie Walters. I am not a fan.