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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 12 Nov 2021

It’s both intimate and almost comically egotistical—yet Branagh has clearly poured so much love into it that you can’t be too hard on…

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By Dukecumberjack (7) on 12 Nov 2021

Has some touching moments but for a story centered around violent sectarian conflict, this film has essentially no bite to it at all…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 11 Nov 2021

Belfast is a moving, tense and yet often lightly comical experience…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Nov 2021

Branagh’s remembrances may be idealized, but with Belfast he has written a charming, rose-tinted thank-you note to the city that sparked…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 11 Nov 2021

Boldly filmed in black-and-white, Branagh wrings a heartfelt narrative from a superb cast, though the story stumbles somewhat when it strays…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 11 Nov 2021

In recalling his youthful days in an insular neighborhood in the titular city, Branagh has made a film that’s both intimate and ambitious—his…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 11 Nov 2021

After proceeding through the childhood epiphanies and observed details, Branagh’s memory journey stumbles in the last act as he attempts…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 11 Nov 2021

It’s a humanist crowd-pleaser with just enough historical heft to count as something more than a small family drama, and it’s also a deeply…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Nov 2021

There is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 10 Nov 2021

Taken all together, Branagh’s film is in its own special way like a cinematic equivalent of the Irish brogue that fills it: It’s lovely,…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 10 Nov 2021

Branagh has directed all kinds of movies over the past 30 years, from his frequent adaptations of Shakespeare to Cinderella and the aforementioned…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Nov 2021

For its frequently painful contours, there’s an abundance of pleasures to be had in Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s irresistible memoir about…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 10 Nov 2021

Shot in soft black-and-white, with color occasionally peering in at the movie houses where Buddy spends rapt hours, Belfast is brief, tidy…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Nov 2021

The micro-homilies proliferate, the stagy drama heightens, and subtlety gives way to a little pandering…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 10 Nov 2021

So many films are described as love letters — to places, to time, to people, to even the idea of cinema — that the phrase has almost been…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 10 Nov 2021

Lyrical and episodic, Belfast is often affecting, if far too sentimental…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Nov 2021

This may, in content, be the most “personal” film in the up-and-down career of the classically trained stage and screen veteran…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Nov 2021

Everyone has a story from childhood that remains vivid in memory, and that feels important enough to immortalize in art…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Nov 2021

Belfast is deserving of double-digit Oscar nominations, from the picture itself to Branagh’s directing and writing to the editing and cinematography…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Nov 2021

It’s a heartfelt salute from Branagh to his hometown, and what he loved there…

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