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  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary Pinkie is a cunning charmer trying to make his mark on the vicious gangland of Brighton. When Rose, a young waitress, stumbles on evidence that links Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing, he draws her into a conned romance to keep the loose end tied up. When Rose’s world-weary boss becomes suspicious of the enigmatic young man hangin...

Directed By: Rowan Joffe

Written By: Graham Greene, Rowan Joffe

  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 51 m

Brighton Rock

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary Pinkie is a cunning charmer trying to make his mark on the vicious gangland of Brighton. When Rose, a young waitress, stumbles on evidence that links Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing, he draws her into a conned romance to keep the loose end tied up. When Rose’s world-weary boss becomes suspicious of the enigmatic young man hangin...

Directed By: Rowan Joffe

Written By: Graham Greene, Rowan Joffe

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
57
42% Positive
10 Reviews
54% Mixed
13 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review

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Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
57
42% Positive
10 Reviews
54% Mixed
13 Reviews
4% Negative
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100
Aug 20, 2011
Control's Sam Riley steps into a role made unforgettable by a young Richard Attenborough in the 1947 original and makes it his own, slipping into the character like a second skin.
By Pam Grady FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 26, 2011
Joffe for the most part amps up the melodrama without tearing Greene's complex weave, but everything unravels toward the end with some staggeringly bad staging. It's as if the film itself had been mugged.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW

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65
Aug 25, 2011
Where Joffe purposely departs from "Brighton Rock" deprives his movie of the book's most revelatory element: Faith. Gorgeous, ambitious and daring as it often is, Brighton Rock has no soul.
By S.T. Vanairsdale FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 28, 2011
This Brighton Rock doesn't live up to the greatness of the novel (or even, really, the very-goodness of the 1947 movie), but it doesn't betray Greene's book either, which may be all a reasonable reader and filmgoer could ask.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 25, 2011
There's a lovely moment with Mirren and John Hurt that helps send Brighton Rock toward its final note of tenderness. With so much style to burn, Joffe handles the tinge of Greene-ian ambivalence just right.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 23, 2011
The leads are compelling and the chase and fight scenes - scored to a propulsive bass-drum beat - are kinetic, but as Brighton Rock attempts to zero in on Rose and Pinkie's dangerous relationship, it loses momentum.
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38
Aug 22, 2011
Brighton Rock never brings its baby-faced hood antihero, the scarfaced Pinkie Brown (Sam Riley, pouting and hunched in the late-DiCaprio manner), into a semblance of human plausibility.
By Bill Weber FULL REVIEW
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Production Company StudioCanal, BBC Film, UK Film Council, Kudos Film and Television, Film Council Development Fund, Film Council Premiere Fund, Shine Pictures
Release Date Aug 26, 2011
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Love. Murder. Revenge.
Website http://www.brightonrockmovie.com/
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 4 Nominations
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Evening Standard British Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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