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- 2007
- R
- City Lights Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 2007
- R
- City Lights Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Michael Corrente
Written By: Terence Winter
- 2007
- R
- City Lights Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 2007
- R
- City Lights Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
Brooklyn Rules
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Michael Corrente
Written By: Terence Winter
Where to Watch
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Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
53
31% Positive
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4 Reviews
46% Mixed
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6 Reviews
23% Negative
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Michael Corrente's Brooklyn Rules takes him to the mean streets of Gotti country, circa 1985, and it's another gem.
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.
Baldwin is so good in the coming-of-age gangster drama Brooklyn Rules that it's like watching a voodoo priest.
A sometimes funny, occasionally maudlin coming-of-age dramedy that wants to be "Goodfellas" but might have been called "Mild in the Streets."
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.
Too many cliches and not enough energy have come along for the ride.
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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