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Brooklyn Rules
City Lights Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for violence, pervasive language and some sexual content
Starring
Alec Baldwin,
Freddie Prinze Jr.,
Scott Caan,
Mena Suvari,
Jerry Ferrara,
Monica Keena,
and
Robert Turano
The tale of three life long friends struggling with relationships, responsibility and loyalty on the mean streets of 1980's-era Brooklyn. (City Light Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Terence Winter
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Corrente
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: May 18, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
99 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Michael Corrente's Brooklyn Rules takes him to the mean streets of Gotti country, circa 1985, and it's another gem.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
An entertaining film that's true to its world.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
It's not quite layered or weighty enough to fill the aching hole left in our psyches by the end of "The Sopranos," and most of the developments are as obvious as sauce on spaghetti. Still, Brooklyn Rules is a decent, if derivative, movie.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Baldwin dominates the screen with his slick, beefy swagger, and if Prinze is less than convincing as a kid from Brooklyn, Caan and Ferrara nail Carmine and Bobby with such assured economy that it hardly matters they're one-note roles.

60
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Baldwin is so good in the coming-of-age gangster drama Brooklyn Rules that it's like watching a voodoo priest.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The boys-in-the-Italian-hood clichés were penned by "Sopranos" scribe Terence Winter, so they have snap, if not freshness.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Not as bad as Bobby's mother's lasagna, neither is Brooklyn Rules anywhere near the best you've ever had, though at times, it may remind you of it.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
However authentic and heartfelt this film's depiction of life on the meaner streets of the Northeast corridor may be, it doesn't begin to match "The Sopranos'" epic vision of violence, class struggle and upward mobility in a barbarous culture.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
The writing in Brooklyn seems even more generic. An excessive use of voice-over narration is a sure sign of a failure of dramatization.

50
Variety
John Anderson
A sometimes funny, occasionally maudlin coming-of-age dramedy that wants to be "Goodfellas" but might have been called "Mild in the Streets."

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Too many cliches and not enough energy have come along for the ride.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The kind of movie that cries out for the fast-forward button.

30
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
As a longtime writer on "The Sopranos," Terence Winter has steered clear of most of the hoary organized-crime clichés. Instead, he's poured them all into director Michael Corrente's anemic urban drama.


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