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(1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 42% Rotten Page   1   "Breaking and Entering piqued my curiosity but failed to deliver the emotional wallop I expected."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B+ "There are moments in Breaking that are heart-stoppingly perfect in their observance of human beings engaging in games of the heart."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 2/5 "Not quite a misdemeanor, but definitely nothing to celebrate."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 2.5/4 "Plays by its own rules and hopes prospective audiences are patient enough to follow characters whose lives are more rewarding to watch than the ho-hum plot surrounding them."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman "The pitch meeting must have been frightening: "Caché for fans of Chocolat.""   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 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."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C "Minghella seems intent on making Merchant-Ivory films now, and I don't mean that in a good way."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "A drab, unaffecting combination of unrealistic drama and muddled didacticism, impossible to connect with on either an emotional or an intellectual level."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A thought-provoking and ethically-charged film that greatly expands our moral understanding of the act of stealing."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Perhaps the kindest way to describe Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering is to say it's evident as being broken fairly early during the proceedings."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 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."   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren "It took me a while to move once Entering ended."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2/5 "Weak as both a forbiden afair drama due to the non existant chemistry of the illicit couple, and as a sociological exploration of the relationships between the rich white man and the ghetto boy, or even as a political approach of the Bosnian drama, B&E on"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis C+ "Benoît Delhomme's cool cinematography and a truly lovely score, by Underworld's Karl Hydem, Rick Smith and Gabriel Yared, are the film's biggest assets."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 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."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "Minghella is a master at texture and depth, which makes up for some frustration with the characters"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "This is a smart, elegant, sophisticated film that should be everything I want to see in a movie and yet fails to be because it's missing that one enigmatic element, the hardest to capture, the most unfakeable: spirit."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/4 "From its class warfare premise to the presence of Juliette Binoche, Breaking and Entering plays out like a softer, more cuddly version of Michael Haneke's Caché."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "An overly metaphorical mess in which virtually every character and story element is so choked with portent that the whole thing looks like a fire sale at Symbols 'R Us."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 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."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/10 "The inner city doesn't work for either Minghella or Law in this tedious pot-boiler that even Juliette Binoche can't pull out of the fire"   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson "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."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell "Breaking and Entering is so bloodless that even Minghella's best ideas come off as wan and pale. We're aware of the angst and confusion these characters suffer, and yet the movie shows us nothing so messy as real pain."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "What is worse: the theft of material possessions or the theft of someone's heart? That's the intellectually engaging premise."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 1.5/4 "A betrayal of a dedicated cast and a middlebrow demographic that deserves better than this handsome, pedagogical tongue bath whether it asks for it or not."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 42% Rotten Page   1