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Despite very good performances and solid construction, it's a slightly too symmetrical, way too tendentious side-by-side comparison of two families -- Haves, meet the Have-nots -- who come into unlikely contact in the fitfully gentrifying area of Kings Cross. Read full review
Breaking and Entering is a bourgeois movie full of bourgeois problems presented bourgeoisly. Read full review
The actors, especially Binoche, do their damnedest to bring urgency to their roles. But despite Minghella's admirable attempt to tackle major themes on an intimate scale, the film goes down like weak tea. There's no kick in it. Read full review
Entirely respectable in every way, it nonetheless has a very cool body temperature and thus likely will inspire polite admiration rather than excitement among viewers. Read full review
For all its contrivances, Breaking and Entering has its finger on the pulse of contemporary London life and possesses its share of fleeting delights, chief among them the sublime Robin Wright Penn as Law's live-in girlfriend. Read full review
However admirably Minghella urges a break from complacency and an entry into a state of local/global compassion, his characters are position holders rather than people. Read full review
Breaking and Entering starts out powerfully, then falls apart by the time it reaches its too-neat conclusion. Read full review
The story, like the protagonist, floats along in a noodly sort of way, intelligent, benign and ineffectual. Read full review
Starts busily, and soon becomes a bafflement -- such an interesting cast, such technical excellence, so many intricate details and parallel plot threads, yet so little clarity or urgency. Read full review
What saves Breaking and Entering from foundering altogether in earnest self-regard is Mr. Minghella's evident affection for London, a city of inexhaustible architectural and human variety. Read full review
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… blabbedy-blah-blah-blah. Read full review