Karynsiegmann Review of Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Old fashioned film noir hits the right note

[8/10 · 2 March 2020]

Set in New York in the 1950s Motherless Brooklyn harkens back to 1940s and 50s film noir, with hard boiled detectives, beautiful dames and city corruption rife. Ed Norton (who wrote the screen play and directed) is fabulous as the detective suffering from undiagnosed Tourette's. He tends to stay in the background but when his boss and mentor is killed he starts searching for the truth. My only criticism: Soundtracks need to add to the story and at first I found the jazzy score to be intrusive but after the first few pivotal scenes it settled down and was excellent. I really liked this film, 4 stars