The director and screenwriter have been gifted with anextraordinary lead actor. In the role of Eilis, Saorise Ronan is as alert,intelligent, and emotionally alive as the character herself.

...an old-fashioned entertainment, but one so masterfully crafted and heartfelt that it’s hard not to love.

...Ronan, who gives such a tremendous performance.

Her inability to say what should be said makes you want to scream. But that is painfully believable, and not just in 1952.

Ronan og Cohens kemi hører til blandt de seneste mange års absolut mest charmerende filmpar. Så knuselskelig cute er duoen...

Det finns något äkta och innerligt i Saoirse Ronans porträtt av den känslomässigt ituslitna Eilis....

Hendes præstation som den generte, kønne, kløgtige Eilis med mod og mandshjerte overbeviste mig fuldstændig om, at subtilt kan være ganske rigeligt.

The star of Brooklyn is Fiona Weir not a person who appears on screen at any stage, but the woman who cast it.