Brighton Rock

Name: Brighton Rock
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 26, 2011
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 57

2011

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IFC Films | Release Date: August 26, 2011 | R

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 hangingPinkie 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 hanging around her charge, the tangled web becomes a deadly game of psychological cat-and-mouse. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Rowan Joffe

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

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. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Sep 1, 2011

While the two leads emerge soulless as melodrama hovers around the edges of the tale, the era is convincingly portrayed and the melancholy mood is hauntingly rendered. Read full review

John Anderson

Aug 25, 2011

The film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Aug 25, 2011

Although Joffe appears to be making a Brighton version of the seductively natty evil we find stateside in "Boardwalk Empire," this Brighton Rock remains muffled, half-formed pulp fiction. Read full review

Dana Stevens

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. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

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. Read full review

Bill Weber

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. Read full review

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Trailesque

Jul 20, 2021

This is a handsome but rather pointless remake of a 1948 film, which was based on Graham Greene's first novel, a pulp fiction thriller. The year is moved up to 1964, so it can coincide with the notorious mods vs. rockers street brawls that occurred then. Riley and Riseborough are good, andThis is a handsome but rather pointless remake of a 1948 film, which was based on Graham Greene's first novel, a pulp fiction thriller. The year is moved up to 1964, so it can coincide with the notorious mods vs. rockers street brawls that occurred then. Riley and Riseborough are good, and Helen Mirren is better. The sets are lavishly put together and nicely photographed. The story focuses on a rising young gangster and his relationship with a young waitress, whom he marries to keep her from revealing something she knows. Mirren plays the ex-girlfriend of a murdered man looking to even the score and, maybe, to protect the young lady. it is well-made but nothing out of the ordinary.… Expand

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beelzie14

Oct 9, 2011

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"!

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CitizenCharlie

Sep 12, 2011

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

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