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Brick Lane (2008)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:60
Rotten:33
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Frustratingly slow-moving, but ultimately saved by Chatterjee's solid acting and Gavron's gentle patience.
Theatrical Release:Jun 20, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $1,010,010
Synopsis: Nazneen’s life is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen,. Forced into an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s... [More]
Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum
Director: Sarah Gavron
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Reviews for Brick Lane
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 2/5 |
A blandly earnest coming-of-age story. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Brick Lane is lovely to look at and the performances, particularly from Chatterjee and Kaushik, are delightful. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Kaushik is remarkable as Chanu, a role that demands he be a buffoonish, yet loving man, intelligent beneath his self-aggrandizing attitudes, oversized ambitions and determined cheerfulness. Full Review |
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Despite the fine performances, Brick Lane comes across as a nice soap opera when it promised much more. Full Review |
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3/4 |
In Chanu, it creates an indelible protagonist. He thinks he is a man of ideas. He is a man who, when it counts, is full of common sense and uncommon feeling. Full Review |
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6/10 |
As long as Brick Lane remains focused on Nazneen, it succeeds admirably. Full Review |
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83/100 |
... an intriguing and visually interesting film that in aggregate never escapes the genre ghetto. It is another immigration song, a glancing curiosity that never really penetrates our preconceived romantic illusions. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Relative newcomer Chatterjee is a revelation as Nazneen. It's her character's predicament that holds our interest. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Brick Lane, by director Sarah Gavron and Angela's Ashes screenwriter Laura Jones, is, like Mira Nair's film The Namesake, a heartfelt portrait of the new immigrant experience. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The slant is feminist, but the most interesting character is not the saintly and long-suffering wife but her initially ridiculous husband (wonderfully played by Satish Kaushik). Full Review |
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3/5 |
The story has many themes to contend with and sometimes accordingly becomes unfocused, but when fully controlled it’s also quite moving and surprising. Full Review |
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B+ |
Small, intimate and achingly modern, Brick Lane is a lovely study involving both one woman's awakening and the inevitability of cross-cultural pollination. Full Review |
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Brick Lane is a grown-up movie. It recognizes that there are different kinds of love and that some of them don't involve happily-ever-afters. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Chanu, a torrent of frustration who seems to be no more happy with the union than his wife is, confronts Karim in a memorable scene that packs a spark the rest of the film lacks. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Taken for what it is, Brick Lane is something entirely its own. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[A] quietly observant and quite beautiful adaptation of the Monica Ali novel. Full Review |
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6/10 |
Poignant and subtle, it tackles cross-cultural conflict and racial intolerance. Full Review |
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January 23, 2009:
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