Motherless Brooklyn Movie Rating: 2.5Film noir can be a tough sell in modern cinema. Motherless Brooklyn seems intent on displaying all the reasons why it doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean it’s a total waste of 144 minutes. The meeting goes bad, Frank gets shot, and now Lionel must use all of his gumshoeing skills to figure out what happened to him. Adapted from the book by Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn needed to be cut more liberally to fit into the medium of film. To anyone yearning to revisit the old noir days of fedoras and dames, Motherless Brooklyn will be a fun little throwback.