Review of Brooklyn (2015) by Jamesl — 18 Jan 2016

Every year there is a film nominated that has no business being nominated. "Brooklyn".

Occupies that category this year. The story is not new, there is nothing that makes you say this is exceptional, and in fact, you wonder why anybody gave a damn. Maybe it truly captured the Irish immigration of those days and how this young girl broke tradition, but this film did nothing to make me care about it. This film makes "Carol" look exciting. In fact, "Carol" is a much more interesting glacial paced story. I think they should have had the bear from "Revenant" attack her just to spice it up.