A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Elia Kazan has directed this picture, his first, with an easy naturalness that has brought out all the tone of real experience in a vastly affecting film. Read more

TIME Magazine: A sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Where Tree is frequently slow, it is offset by the story's significance and pointed up notably by the direction of Elia Kazan. Read more