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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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Mar 20, 2008 Wide
US 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
Sarah Gavron’s tale of a young Bangladeshi woman unwillingly transplanted to London’s East End is absorbing enough, moving enough and visually attractive enough to provide a perfectly acceptable night out at the movies.
Direction and the work of the cast are outstanding.
Fewer incendiary incidents and a red pencil applied to the script might have freed the good movie that’s buried somewhere beneath layers of unearned emotional conflict.
The sort of female empowerment flick that could get a fatwa issued against Sarah Gavron, the intrepid director daring enough to make the picture
Monica Ali’s rich, assured 2003 debut novel about the Bangladeshi Muslim diaspora in London is adequately served, but the decisions of cowriters Abi Morgan and Laura Jones too often turn Ali’s complex prose into the predictable.
Sarah Gavron’s Brick Lane, from a screenplay by Abi Morgan and Laura Jones, is based on the rapturously received 500-page first novel by Monica Ali.
No new ground is explored, however, in this handsomely constructed film. Nazneen's story seems familiar every step of the way.
A weepie that alternates between the poignant and the trite ... The acting is good, but the script is overwrought.
Beautifully realized by Sarah Gavron, who fills Nazneen's story with gorgeous visuals and traditional music, creating a film that's dramatic, romantic and even erotic at times.
Monica Ali’s expansive, epic best seller about decades in the life of a sheltered wife from Bangladesh in the titular London neighborhood is transformed into a compact, delicate tale of adultery, extremism, and awakening.
Even when 9/11 is invoked the film doesn't so much suggest a melodrama of the heart and spirit as it does an explosion at a fabric store.
Every conceivable choice on this film was met with the most obvious answer, and every turn comes right out of other movies.
A movie whose visuals are lovely to behold and lyrically awash in sensuality and desire, but sets the lives of women back at least a few centuries.
Takes on the theme of 'Where is home'--the place where you were born or the locale of your residence--with freshness and sparkling acting.
Monica Ali’s sensitive sprawling text about a Bangledeshi wife (Chatterjee) forced into an east London marriage gets a sanded-down blandification as it makes its lurch onto the big screen.
Underwhelming.
Tannishtha Chatterjee perfectly captures the emotional awakening of shy heroine Nazneen.
Although well-acted and heartfelt, it provokes shrugged shoulders rather than the tears it’s clearly striving for.
The romance at the heart of Brick Lane never comes alive. Chatterjee is doleful and weepy, Simpson enervated.
Gavron's movie finds an unfashionably gentle, human optimism in the face of all this, and a sympathetic performance from Chatterjee makes it plausible.
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A movie whose visuals are lovely to behold and lyrically awash in sensuality and desire, but sets the lives of women back at least a few centuries. 
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