Brooklyn 45 nails all the details, the pacing, the dialogue, the period details.

I like the script a lot. In execution it's a little stagey... [But] I felt that this had some really good veers.

The cast has to walk a fine line, though they do behave as people might under extraordinary and extraordinarily unnerving circumstances. None is better at this than Ms. Ramsay, who executes remarkably natural acting under unnatural conditions

Geoghegan's chamber horror Brooklyn 45 assembles a gallery of war dogs in the immediate aftermath of WWII to drink, tell their hoary stories of survival and the terrible things they've seen...