While We're Young

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts suffer a midlife funk in Noah Baumbach's latest

"...(Watts), finds himself reinvigorated by an unlikely friendship with Brooklyn twentysomethings Jamie (Driver) and Darby (Seyfried)...."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

St. Vincent

Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.

"...the house next door to Vincent in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Oliver is a puny kid who is bullied by..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dog

Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.

"...entered the Chase Manhattan Bank on Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York, with the intent to rob the financial..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Obvious Child

Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.

"...At the start of the film, a struggling Brooklyn stand-up comic named Donna (Slate) takes the stage to..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fading Gigolo

John Turturro directs himself and Woody Allen in this movie that gently cruises but but never drives it home.

"...Murray off with the gaggle of children to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to visit the Hasidic widow Avigal (Paradis), who is..."

May 9, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Family

The family that slays together, stays together – even in witness protection.

"...of lost generation, displaced from familiar mobster surroundings in Brooklyn and relocated village to village under a federal witness..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Paranoia

This techno-thriller starring Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford, and Gary Oldman arrives inert.

"...Hemsworth as Adam Cassidy, an entry-level software drone from Brooklyn who lands a job with a multibillion-dollar Manhattan communications..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Blue Jasmine

Class difference and life's shambles are on Woody Allen's mind as he leads Cate Blanchett through a perfectly calibrated performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by modern finance.

"...swindles. Once he goes to prison, Jasmine decamps to Brooklyn (horrors!) before moving cross-country to crash with her sister..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action

Childhood, aging, and geographic diversity are common themes in these dramas from around the world.

"...from commercial director Bryan Buckley. In the former, a Brooklyn man’s suicide attempt is interrupted by his estranged sister,..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Pariah

Pariah tells the specific but universal story of a black teenage girl who is a virginal lesbian, budding writer, and nonconformist.

"...the universal with its emotionally engaging story about a Brooklyn teenager who struggles to find a place to fit..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sitter

Jonah Hill plays the world's most irresponsible babysitter in this new movie from David Gordon Green.

"...reluctant babysitter lugging three kids in a minivan through Brooklyn while dodging a sulky drug dealer (Sam Rockwell) –..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cop Out

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in Kevin Smith's painfully unfunny throwback to the Eighties buddy-cop movies.

"...pairs Willis and Morgan as unlikely (yet satirically clichéd) Brooklyn detectives Monroe and Hodges, respectively, nine-year veterans of the..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Notorious

In Notorious, the life of hip-hop artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, assumes the shape of the standard biopic formula.

"...rapper’s life are all here: his attentive upbringing in Brooklyn by his single mom, the lure of the streets..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings star as the titular bridge-and-tunnel kids at the heart of this New York City after-dark romantic comedy.

"...out on the town searching the East Village and Brooklyn for a supersecret show by too-cool-for-school band Where's Fluffy?..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Newest Adam Sandler comedy Chuck & Larry is a movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful, that quickly turns from wild farce to gay-agenda movie.

"...Chuck and Larry are best friends, manly men, and Brooklyn firefighters. When Larry can’t change the beneficiary of his..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Half Nelson

Ryan Gosling's bleakly hopeful turn as crack-addicted teacher Dan in Half Nelson is matched only by the smoldering realism of newcomer Shareeka Epps.

"...your damn heart again. But Gosling, as Dan, a Brooklyn junior high school teacher hooked on crack, has met..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Squid and the Whale

In this expertly acted piece about the coming apart of a family of New York intellectuals, humor is served not with a smirk but with a helpless shrug.

"...when that family – the Berkmans of Park Slope, Brooklyn, circa 1986 – soon after dissolves in divorce, the..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hey Arnold!: The Movie

"...Snidely Whiplash corporate villain who thinks turning the kid's Brooklyn-esque neighborhood into one huge pile of gentrified sprawl is..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Margarita Happy Hour

"...a scene, a demographic -- a sort of angry Brooklyn-boho existence of punk rock and performance art. But as..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Finding North

"...first played Austin during SXSW '98). When a sassy Brooklyn banker teller (Makkena) witnesses a nude man almost leap..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Siege

"...city, the president gives the order to shut down Brooklyn (strangely the Beastie Boys are nowhere to be found),..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Price Above Rubies

"...A Stranger Among Us a few years ago has Brooklyn's Hasidic community been so foregrounded in an American motion..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Illtown

"...life, death, and drug-running in modern-day Florida backwaters. Perpetual Brooklyn wiseguy Rapaport tones down his flip style in favor..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pallbearer

"...and living at home with his mother (Kane) in Brooklyn. His closest friends, Scott (Vartan) and Brad (Rapaport), are..."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Sunset Park

"...Steve Gomer (Sweet Lorraine) stars Rhea Perlman as a Brooklyn high school gym teacher, Phyllis Saroka, who agrees to..."

May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

If Lucy Fell

"...age 30, they end it all together atop the Brooklyn Bridge. Childhood pacts usually don't survive the tests of..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blue in the Face

"...the movie down with them. As a slice of Brooklyn summertime life, Blue in the Face never quite hits..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Odessa

"...estranged from his Russian-Jewish émigré family, returns home to Brooklyn to settle a score and, in the course of..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Inkwell

"...years ago with his debut film Straight Out of Brooklyn, a dramatically evocative though stylistically inchoate glimpse of family..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Car 54, Where are You?

"...by Joe E. Ross) at the 53rd Precinct in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, Fishman's film is neither funny nor bears much..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

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