Black-and-white Oscar contenders can be tough for critics to recommend to moviegoers, but occasionally one is filled with such heart that it’s destined to be a crowd pleaser. Enter Kenneth Branagh’s ...

Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical drama “Belfast” movingly finds a very difficult balance: It’s a film both thoroughly sentimental and grittily real. Taking place mostly in the summer of 1969, it’s ...

Kenneth Branagh's sweetly ineffective ode to his birth city is a black-and-white movie seen through rose-colored glasses. A black-and-white cine-memoir that’s remembered through rose-colored glasses, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until watching Kenneth Branagh’s wistfully autobiographical “Belfast,” I don’t think I realized that one of Britain’s greatest ...

This review of “Belfast” was first published on Sept. 12 after the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Film directors have been exploring their own childhood memories on screen for decades, ...

"Belfast" takes a chapter from the history books to tell the story of the fight between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. The time in the mid-20th century came to be known as "The ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

'Belfast' is Kenneth Branagh's love letter to the city and childhood. Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, and Judi Dench turn in wonderful performances. But, it lacks an emotional impact.

Kenneth Branagh revisits a turbulent stretch of his childhood in “Belfast.” The time is 1969, when he was 9 years old and the Troubles, the sectarian battles between Catholics and Protestants, were ...

This is an advanced review from the London Film Festival. Belfast opens in the US on Nov. 12 and in the UK on Feb. 25, 2022. Having plundered Shakespeare, Disney, Marvel, and most recently Agatha ...

Film directors have been exploring their own childhood memories on screen for decades, and the honor roll of notable films that have come from that exploration ranges from Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 ...