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'Belfast' Review: A Boy's Life

Charlotte Hadden for The New York Times. DORNAN LEFT BELFAST just as he was about to turn 20, three years after his mother died from pancreatic cancer. He had spent that in-between time feeling ...

Belfast. "Belfast" is unquestionably Kenneth Branagh 's most personal film to date, but it's also sure to have universal resonance. It depicts a violent, tumultuous time in Northern Ireland, but it does so through the innocent, exuberant eyes of a nine-year-old boy. And it's shot in gentle black-and-white, with sporadic bursts of ...

The title of Kenneth Branagh's new movie, "Belfast," is something of a giveaway. That is the city where he was born, toward the end of 1960; where the whole of the film unfolds, beginning in ...

You can feel the lack of grit and texture in the production design, and also in the overly polished sheen of the images. But the problems with Belfast aren't just technical. There's an emotional ...

review: Kenneth Branagh's drama is soft-focus coming-of-age nostalgia. The film made its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Judi Dench, Jude Hill, and Ciarán Hinds in 'Belfast'. Photo ...

Filmed in stunningly gorgeous tones of black and white (with a few exceptions, including color images of movies seen by the family), "Belfast" is set primarily on one block in a working-class ...

An opening montage briefly shows the modern city that Belfast has become. Then the first shot, evoking the past in lustrous black-and-white, sets the stage—a single block of row houses in the ...

Review: Kenneth Branagh's 'Belfast' is a personal but muted story of childhood's end. Caitriona Balfe, from left, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie take in a film in a ...

The film feels true in the way it must be exploring Branagh's memories of a tumultuous and confusing time, and the way it pays tribute to a vibrant community as that community is irrevocably ...

From left: Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill and Judi Dench in "Belfast." (Rob Youngson/Focus Features) Review by Ann Hornaday November 10, 2021 at 12:44 p.m. EST

It's summer 1969. Man has just walked on the moon and the British Army has just marched on to the streets of north Belfast. Star Trek-mad nine-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill), who uses goals painted ...

Kenneth Branagh returns to his roots with this wee memoir, which borrows perhaps a bit too much from Alfonso Cuarón's art-house coming-of-ager. Until watching Kenneth Branagh 's wistfully ...

The small, tidy house where Buddy lives with his mother (Catriona Balfe) and older brother (Lewis McAskie)—his father (Jamie Dornan) is working in England to support the family, returning home ...

At first, Kenneth Branagh's Belfast goes all-in on the former. The scene is black and white. In the backstreets of the Northern Irish capital, grinning kids play in front of terraced houses, a ...

March 27, 2022 10:11 AM PT. Described in Times critic Justin Chang's review as "Kenneth Branagh's wobbly crowd-pleaser about his tumultuous early years in Northern Ireland," "Belfast ...

Charlotte O'Sullivan January 21, 2022. Review at a glance. A winner at Toronto, and tipped to snag more big prizes at the Baftas and Oscars, Kenneth Branagh 's latest movie is a semi ...

Title: Belfast (2021) Director: Kenneth Branagh 👨🏼🇬🇧 Writers: Kenneth Branagh 👨🏼🇬🇧 Review by Carolyn Hinds 👩🏾🇧🇧🇨🇦♿️ —SPOILERS AHEAD— Technical: 5/5 Belfast is a lively, sweet, and sometimes sad retrospective of days long gone. Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, the film gives viewers a glimpse into his childhood in 1969 Northern Ireland ...

Belfast packs a lot of drama into ninety-seven minutes. The result is a pacing slowdown where the film drags. The result is a pacing slowdown where the film drags. Branagh needed to sharpen the ...

Movie Review: In the autobiographical drama Belfast, Kenneth Branagh tells the story of a nine-year-old boy living in the Northern Irish city as sectarian violence starts to consume his world.

Belfast skirts politics with a child's-eye view of the Troubles. Kenneth Branagh renders his youthful memories in black and white. Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, and Jude Hill in ...

Dir: Kenneth Branagh. Starring: Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Morgan, Jude Hill. 12A, 98 minutes. Kenneth Branagh's Belfast is a film about the Troubles that ...

We join Belfast in the last year of the 1960s - as the Troubles surge and Morrison's first great solo period peaks. Indeed, the whole film plays like one of the singer's later, sentimental ...

The "Always All Ways, Anne Marie" story is a version of Vita's reality, just as Vita's story is a version of Anger's. But it's also different, and Vita wonders aloud, in a way that ...