Synopsis
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Cast
- Andy SerkisMr. Colleoni
- Helen MirrenIda
- John HurtPhil Corkery
- Sam RileyPinkie
- Andrea RiseboroughRose
- Sean HarrisHale
- Phil DavisFrank Spicer
- Nonso AnozieDallow
- Craig ParkinsonCubitt
- Geoff BellKite
Recommendations
- 100
Boxoffice Magazine
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. - 80
Time Out
What might have been a long walk off a short pier becomes a valid, vital rethinking of a crime classic. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
I know the novel, and as dark as this film is, I believe it hesitates to follow Greene into his dark abyss. It is about helplessness and evil, but isn't merciless enough. - 58
The A.V. Club
Rowan Joffe (son of Roland Joffe) provides busy, if never particularly distinctive direction, but it's the leads that continually threaten to sink the film. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Rowan Joffe's film of Graham Greene's 1938 novel "Brighton Rock" takes a gothic approach to the story of a young thug obsessed with hell with little of the writer's subtlety and too much reliance on a loud quasi-religious choral score. - 50
Variety
Joffe's first feature never shakes off the feel of a telepic with above-average production values, and its unsteady lead performances and often garish stylistic touches make a muddle of the source material's psychological acuity. - 50
The New Yorker
The extreme innocence of Rose (Andrea Riseborough), the young girl whom Pinkie seduces in order to keep her quiet, is no longer very convincing, or even interesting. - 50
Village Voice
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.
