Breaking and Entering (2007)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:41
Rotten:80
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: This class warfare drama feels contrived and superficial: characters don’t act logically as the movie manipulates them towards deconstructing various social issues.
Theatrical Release:10-11-2006
Synopsis: BREAKING AND ENTERING may lack the quality and scope of Anthony Minghella's previous work such as THE ENGLISH PATIENT and COLD MOUNTAIN, but it's an interesting, character-driven drama. Jude Law... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman
Director: Anthony Minghella
Reviews for Breaking and Entering
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 3/5 |
A shapely, intelligent piece probing the placid surface of London’s trendy reputation to discover an array of 21st century maladies -- personal, social, political, criminal, even mental, but not, it transpires, dental. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
It's a smart film, but like much of Minghella's output, it is too polite to grip. Full Review |
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Full of interesting characters, intelligently conceived scenes and funny lines... Full Review |
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Diffuse, disappointing, and strangely out of touch. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film is saddled with a badly written, unconvincing ending that threatens to ruin the film completely - in fact, you're almost better off leaving the cinema ten minutes early and supplying your own ending. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Minghella returns to his roots for a moody and stylish London drama that's full of terrific scenes and strong performances. Although it's a little contrived and overwrought. Full Review |
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One-hundred percent uncut bourgeois fantasy Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Though intricately plotted and well acted, Minghella's characters feel more like symbols than flesh-and-blood characters, and their travails seem designed to illustrate a lecture about privilege, injustice, cultural stereotypes and bourgeois complacency. Full Review |
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The complicated interactions involving class and culture that ensue between all these characters remain fascinating even when they seem overly schematic. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Insightful, contemporary love story for adults. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Though Binoche does very solid work, she can't sell the idea of her and Law as a couple; the chemistry isn't there. Not much else rings true in Minghella's screenplay, which is full of coincidences and speeches about race and class. Full Review |
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Everything in Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering is torn and in need of mending....And like the flaw's set within the confines of the film, the movie itself is in need of a little tinkering itself. Full Review |
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The pitch meeting must have been frightening: "Caché for fans of Chocolat." Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A messy yet occasionally affecting drama. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Un drama urbano muy contemporáneo que explora superficialmente ciertas realidades sociales, pero que presta más atención a las crisis domésticas de sus personajes. Podría haber sido mucho más interesante. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Minghella signe une %u0153uvre enivrante énumérant avec tact et intelligence les valeurs d'honnêteté, de respect et de confiance découlant de chacune de ses résolutions de conflit. Full Review |
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Class friction and the ensuing cinema of paranoia evidence of the growing class divide on screen Full Review |
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82/100 |
...a handsome but regrettably underpowered and preachy movie about liberal white guilt. Full Review |
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