Honestly, can't get my head around this one. Standing ovations at Sundance? Really? For this? So Saorse Ronan plays an emotionally blank young woman with a perpetual look of slightly pained superfluity, who emigrates to New York from a picture-postcard Ireland, depicted as a pursed, gossipy village of church-on-Sunday piousness and coded snobbery. Once in the Big Apple she drifts meekly through a succession of not-very-interesting adventures, with the blandest supporting cast of cardboard cutouts assembled in any film since the 1950s. Eventually she ends up back for a stretch, works as an accountant (the drama!) and walks on the beach a couple of times with Donal Gleeson, before having a teacup spat with the old cow that she used to work for and deciding, almost reluctantly, to return to her husband in the 'States. And that's it.While it's basically inoffensive fluff, the sheer volume and intensity of critical praise heaped on this picture completely beggars belief. Ronan, while watchable, is entirely one-note from start to finish. The entire supporting cast are pasted in from kiddult romances from the 1950s, with cheerful stereotypes taking the place of any meaningful character development. Slavishly constructed around Ronan's mooney presence, the film floats aimlessly across the screen, providing neither insight into its lead character's emotional life or throwing up any truly troubling obstacles for her to overcome. In the end, so little happens, and all the characters are so thinly drawn that the viewer (or this one anyway) finds themself asking, "what did I just watch, and was I supposed to care? If so, why did they make the lead character so dismally, relentlessly uninteresting? Why did she ditch the quirky, outspoken girl in her boarding house for the shallow, mean-spirited bimbos she works with? Was she actually into the young bloke she was romancing back home, or was he just a pleasing distraction? Would she really have left her husband just like that? Why wasn't he more angry with her for not writing or calling?" Ultimately, with stakes this low, such an empty lead character and a story so devoid of dramatic incident it's almost astonishing that this even garnered a theatrical release, let alone the fulsome admiration of critics worldwide.

Ugh was this movie boring...like watching paint dry. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 star because the acting is incredible, but it's totally boring. There was also zero chemistry between Eilis and Tony. I was rooting for her to stay in Ireland, but unfortunately she didn't. Waste of time.

In 1952, Eilis Lacey (played by Saoirse Ronan) is a young woman who immigrates from a small Irish town to Brooklyn where she is to start a new life. During a visit back home, she feels conflicted about whether she should stay there or return to her new life in the U.S."Brooklyn" is a sweet film that succeeds at being sentimental without being cloying. It has an old-fashioned warmth particularly when it is being romantic.There are other aspects to admire especially a scene when homeless Irish male immigrants are being fed a Christmas dinner. There are also two acting stalwarts who contribute well to the film: Jim Broadbent as a kindly Irish priest who helps other Irish immigrants; and Julie Walters who is quite funny as a strict Irish landlady of a boarding house of young Irish women.The film is not without flaws including a small-town bully seems too one-dimensional. The role of Eilis' mother could also have been better developed. While Eilis (pronounced Ailish) faces a major dilemma near the end, there seemed to be a hurry to wrap things up. When one must make a major decision in life (as Eilis does), there is often sadness at the choice left behind. Eilis's attitude seemed too one-sided. This inner conflict was better handled in "The Namesake", a 2006 independent U.S. film.Despite these flaws, "Brooklyn" is still admirable especially for Ronan's performance. In the beginning, Eilis is shy, awkward, out of place, and homesick. Her transition throughout the movie is believable and touching. As a child actress in "Atonement" back in 2007, Ronan showed great potential which is proven further in "Brooklyn". Let's hope to see more of her.

The awesome and lovely Brooklyn movie - 2015 and the genre of drama and romance. In the true sense, doubts is the most appropriate word in the key moments of the movie stream, the audience in an inner challenge is in the position and getting right from the first character of the story in that moments. Especially when in the film we find that the personality of the first character of the story, Ronan Saurice, as Ellis, is a highly introverted, conservative and literary human. On the other hand, the situation for the first character of the story is such that returning home with a rotation of one hundred and eighty degrees of livelihood situation and working conditions. Doubts and finally thinking, perhaps by coercion, but ultimately by accepting particular conditions in a unique way, this film has to be seen with the world and more angles familiar to introverted people emotionally.