Christina Newland
iNews.co.uk
Sep 19, 2024
2/5
It's tearjerking, but at times feels like a Hallmark card.
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Amy Smith
InSession Film
Mar 1, 2024
It is the mix of that tone and the fantastic filmmaking within it that elevates it from a lovely film to a gorgeous piece of cinematic history that is sure to please all audiences.
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Juanma Fernández París
El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico)
Dec 5, 2023
While it is admirable how the director achieves all this without relying on superfluous artistic pretensions, the film is not entirely successful in capturing the complexity of the sociopolitical conflict... [Full review in Spanish]
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Nadine Whitney
Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Sep 17, 2023
Belfast is a simple story about complex times. Those looking for a deeply political film will not find it; instead, it is a tender piece about family and place. Branagh’s most personal film is his best in a very long time.
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Graeme Tuckett
The Post NZ
Aug 22, 2023
Belfast has its moments – most of them featuring Judi Dench and Ciaran Hinds as Buddy's grandparents – but the film grates as inauthentic and contrived.
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Zach Pope
Zach Pope Reviews
Jul 26, 2023
A cinematic treat. Kenneth Branagh’s personal story here brings you into The city of Belfast to experience every bit of culture & history. It’s movies like this that remind me WHY I LOVE going to the movies.
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Paul Kanieski
KSQD Community Radio
Jul 25, 2023
Belfast is infused with Branagh’s love of film and film history.
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Emma-Jane Betts
The Digital Fix
Jul 25, 2023
4/5
Belfast, at its heart, stands as a brilliantly performed, delicately written family drama that is a delight to watch.
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Gissane Sophia
Lady Geeks Media
Jul 23, 2023
Equal parts funny, heartwarming, and deeply tender—Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is an emotionally compelling masterpiece full of refinements.
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Brian Susbielles
InSession Film
Feb 21, 2023
Sir Kenneth Branagh constructs a perfect poetic tribute to his hometown about a period of his childhood that could’ve easily become another story about The Troubles. Instead, it’s only one faction of his nostalgia filled with joy, humor, and consequences.
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Stephen A. Russell
Sunday Arts Magazine Podcast (JOY 94.9)
Dec 30, 2022
Horrendously twee
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M.N. Miller
Ready Steady Cut
Oct 21, 2022
4.5/5
[Branagh’s] vision is a joyous celebration and a refreshing critical eye of the family and the community where he grew up. A film that is brimming with those wholly mindful moments that remind you what makes life worth living.
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Zoë Rose Bryant
Loud and Clear Reviews
Sep 1, 2022
4.5/5
Belfast is cinema at its most magical and moving – a compassionate ode to childhood full of passionate performances from its exceptional ensemble cast.
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Prahlad Srihari
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
What Branagh fails to understand is there is a difference between filtering an observed experience through a child's point-of-view, and treating the viewers like they were children.
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Asia Frey
Lagniappe (Mobile, AL)
Aug 24, 2022
A beautiful and emotional film that is inherently moving, Branagh tips the scales to the cheesy.
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Keith Garlington
Keith & the Movies
Aug 16, 2022
5/5
That idea of family burns at the heart of “Belfast”, an earnest, sincere and utterly irresistible movie that had me in its grip from start to finish.
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Cris Kennedy
The Canberra Times (Australia)
Aug 2, 2022
4/5
Branagh employs a number of Van Morrison songs to lay the nostalgic charm on and even if some of them are anachronistic, it works.
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Sarah Ward
Concrete Playground
Jun 25, 2022
A sweet, neat and light but still vivid and soulful snapshot of growing up amid swelling uncertainty.
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Erick Estrada
Cinegarage
Jun 15, 2022
A portrait with emotional filters from a filmmaker defined by his city's history... Branagh feels proud of his childhood experiences in Belfast, of the scars they left and the hearts they broke. [Full review in Spanish]
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Javier Ocaña
El Pais (Spain)
Jun 8, 2022
Belfast conforms itself into a pretty fable about pain. [Full review in Spanish]
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