Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Should you see this '80s mafia drama? Fugeddaboudit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 22, 2008

Top cast delivers terrific characterisations, with all three leads showing deep talents, as does Mena Suvari in a small and thankless but important role.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2008

a fuzzy film sporting more bad Brooklyn accents and mob-movie cliches than Knockaround Guys which, all things considered, is hard to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2007

Aggressively derivative.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 22, 2007

A sometimes funny, occasionally maudlin coming-of-age dramedy that wants to be Goodfellas but might have been called Mild in the Streets.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2007

However authentic and heartfelt this film's depiction of life on the meaner streets of the Northeast corridor may be, it doesn't begin to match The Sopranos' epic vision of violence, class struggle and upward mobility in a barbarous culture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Whether it's read as an exclamation of borough pride or as a set of unwritten laws governing its residents, the movie takes a well-trodden path in chronicling the lives of three Italian American friends, circa 1985.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 20, 2007

If we were playing by mob rules, this movie would get the 'slicer' treatment for trying to impersonate a Scorsese picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Absolutely nothing to recommend the film as anything other than a sagging collection of predictable clichs and brain-numbing boredom.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/5 | Aug 1, 2007

Capturing Manhattan's essence is easy. But capturing life inside provincial New York City -- is something that eludes most filmmakers...And now add Brooklyn Rules to the short list of movies that get it right.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Against all odds, it remains surprisingly watchable.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2007

...Winter's coming-of-age-in-the-1980s saga is content to rewalk the same mean streets, never ducking into one alley or back room we haven't visited.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Singularly unoriginal, full of clich (C)s and tough-neighborhood set pieces tied together with GoodFellas-style voice-over narration.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 12, 2007

Brooklyn Rules is a watchable flick but it's also tired and derivative, which is a shame given the talent involved.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Ah, the nostalgic mob drama. No matter the brutality, the blood, or the sheer fear that shape the memory, movies and TV tend to make life in the mob a growth experience.

Full Review | May 30, 2007

Years after Federal Hill (1994), director Michael Corrente is still doing low-budget Mean Streets knockoffs.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 30, 2007

Although yet another set-in-the-80's coming of age film, it's a familiar but affecting story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2007

It all remains as charming and likable as the mutt that Bobby adopts, and the genuine New York locations sure beat Toronto.

Full Review | May 21, 2007

Brooklyn Rules has enough heart and personality to freshen what could easily be construed as stale cannoli.

Full Review | May 19, 2007