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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Oct 2019

If the screenplay pulls at threads that don’t always pay off, the actors and the thoughtful cinematography of veteran Dick Pope always ensure…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 30 Oct 2019

Norton, who wrote and directed Motherless Brooklyn, does his best to imitate the genre’s snappy dialogue and clever red herrings; but what…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 30 Oct 2019

The upshot of all this, two hours and 24 minutes of vintage car chases, fire escape chases, punch-outs and puzzling over clues…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for TheWrap (3,203) on 30 Oct 2019

Norton earns praise for taking on the gargantuan task of bringing this story to the screen, and pulling quadruple duty as actor-director-writer-producer,…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Oct 2019

It’s far from the worst movie ever produced, but it’s a one-of-a-kind disaster, and therefore interesting…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Oct 2019

This passion project also lets Norton indulge in the kind of tic-heavy acting challenge he embraced early in his career…

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By Josh Lewis (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 Sep 2019

Few films come out in any given year with creative choices as baffling as the ones made by Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Sep 2019

It’s a heavy meal to digest, but this is a strong, vehement film with a real sense of time and place…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Sep 2019

Motherless Brooklyn feels altogether too tidy, a film that revives many of the touchstones of noir, but never that throbbing unease that courses…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Sep 2019

Lionel’s mannerisms could have gotten obnoxious in a hurry, but Norton calibrates the performance so that the character remains unpredictable…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 10 Sep 2019

Despite some pacing troubles and myriad undeveloped characters, Motherless Brooklyn functions well enough as a throwback to the intelligent,…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Sep 2019

Ultimately, frustration and fatigue prevail over the film’s intellectual acuity and political insight; neither is any true emotion ever forthcoming…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 09 Sep 2019

Motherless Brooklyn is the sort of risk-taking effort that deserves kudos whether it works or not…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Sep 2019

If it all sometimes feels trapped in the amber of his intentions, Brooklyn still casts a quiet sort of spell: a meticulously, lovingly made…

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By Sasha Stone (21) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Sep 2019

As Motherless Brooklyn reaches back in time to explore racism and New York City’s history, it also brings us urgently back to right now —…

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