Brighton Rock
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Metascore
57 out of 100

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6.5 out of 10

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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 becomomes suspicious of the enigmatic young man hanging around her charge, the tangled web becomes a deadly game of psychological cat-and-mouse. (IFC Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Pam Grady
    Aug 20, 2011
    100
    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.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Aug 24, 2011
    80
    What might have been a long walk off a short pier becomes a valid, vital rethinking of a crime classic.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Aug 26, 2011
    60
    Though he has a true appreciation for detail, Joffe has the scar-faced Pinkie so scurvy that Rose ought to run the minute she sees him.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Bill Weber
    Aug 22, 2011
    38
    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.

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  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. beelzie14
    5
    Couldn't get into this film at all. I usually love" period pieces" which show localised social entropy, especially Brit-related. Helen Mirren was brilliant as usual - but as for the rest of it - very "meh"!… Expand
  2. CitizenCharlie
    3
    There is something off about Brighton Rock. The atmosphere and mood surrounding the action does not match what is going on. Based on a Graham Greene novel, Brighton Rock follows a low level gangsterâ… Collapse

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