Hollywood Reporter
Branagh's most personal film is imperfect, but the emotion that it builds in the final section... is searing.
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Belfast
Screen greats Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds star alongside Jamie Dornan (50 Shades of Grey) and Caitriona Balfe (Outlander) for filmmaker Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical childhood drama set in the Northern Ireland capital during the late 1960s.
2021Rating: M, Offensive language98 minsUKTKBC
Drama
- Director:
- Kenneth Branagh ('Murder on the Orient Express', 'Thor', 'Cinderella')
- Writer:
- Kenneth Branagh
- Cast:
- Jamie DornanCaitriona BalfeJudi DenchCiarán HindsLara McDonnellGerard HoranTurlough ConveryGerard McCarthyBríd BrennanSid Sagar
Belfast | Awards
Best Original Screenplay at the 2022 Academy Awards. Outstanding British Film at the 2022 BAFTAs. Best Screenplay winner at the 2022 Golden Globes. People's Choice Award winner at Toronto Film Festival 2021.
Belfast | Reviews
Sir Kenneth Branagh brings in an excellent cast for this sincere and well-made love letter to childhood and cinema: a portrait of the artist as a (very) young man.
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Variety
(Belfast) borrows perhaps a bit too much from Alfonso Cuarón's art-house coming-of-ager (Roma).
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RogerEbert.com
(Belfast) contains little dramatic momentum, and even less of a coherent visual language.
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Vulture
There is something genuinely bold in giving a movie about Belfast in 1969 the warm glow of the everyday. It reminds us that life goes on.
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Chicago Tribune
Everything that works in Belfast keeps the movie's superficialities and lower-grade sentiment at bay - if not every step of the way, then at least every other step.
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USA Today
Branagh wrings a heartfelt narrative from a superb cast, though the story stumbles somewhat...
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Belfast | Release Details
Belfast is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.