Belfast - Reviews

Kenneth Branagh’s euphoric eulogy to his home city.

...highly entertaining and beautifully done without ever being innovative or challenging, finding the universal in the specific, the upbeat in dire circumstances. Slight but winning.

...it is the child’s- eye view, the wit, and the generosity of spirit on show that elevate Branagh’s Belfast.

Branagh's genuine affection and nostalgia for his subject suffuse the movie...

Kenneth Branagh’s semiautobiographical memory piece Belfast begins beautifully, so promisingly.

Kenneth Branagh makes a masterful memoir of his tumultuous Irish boyhood.

Seen through the eyes of a young boy, this drama -- set in the late 1960s during the religious conflict in Northern Ireland -- manages to maintain a degree of innocence.

...not only one of the year’s very best films, but Branagh’s finest film to date.

...it is the child’s- eye view, the wit, and the generosity of spirit on show that elevate Branagh’s Belfast.

...en nostalgisk drøm om barndommen, optaget i elegant drømmende sort-hvid med en romantik, man ellers aldrig ser i film om Nordirland.

Det är familj och barndom kontra ond, bråd död – i en evig konflikt. Filmen i ett briserande nötskal.

Sprakande färger, ny musik av van Morrison och en stor dos nostalgi.