Review of Breaking and Entering (2006) by Audra : — 10 Jul 2009

Good acting but as far as the story I didn't really care for it. Vera Farmiga stole the show as a prostitute trying to help Jude Law's character.

This review of Breaking and Entering (2006) was written by Audra : on 10 Jul 2009.

Breaking and Entering has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Breaking and Entering

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Larry S (330) on 19 Jan 2012

Juliette Binoche is always a wonder to watch on film. She can not give a bad performance…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Boris Nicolas E (149) on 19 Jan 2012

Juliette Binoche is always a wonder to watch on film. She can not give a bad performance…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Jose Luis M (587) on 06 Jan 2015

Not bad by any means, although it is ultimately a footnote in an otherwise more significant directorial career…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Sep 2015

Bold in scope and aptly mimicking the loose structures of kinship, friendship and work most city dwellers make do with these days, Breaking…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 20 Dec 2013

Though Binoche does very solid work, she can't sell the idea of her and Law as a couple; the chemistry isn't there…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Buggy B (332) on 24 Feb 2014

This was almost a good movie, following criminals, immigrants and well-to-do professional types in London's King's Cross neighborhood…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Ollie W (539) on 12 Jan 2012

Outstanding performances from Jude Law as an architect searching for happiness, Juliette Binoche as a Serbian Muslim immigrant in London struggling…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Mimi S (146) on 03 Nov 2012

Grade: D- Breaking and Entering is a bad film with a terrible storyline. I've never been a fan of the overly sauve Jude Law either…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Jun 2017

There's no shortage of candidates for the fatal flaw: the artificial storyline; the presence of a ridiculously cliched character; the lack…

Read Review

Review of Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 Jan 2015

Breaking and Entering is a bourgeois movie full of bourgeois problems presented bourgeoisly…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of It's Complicated (2009)

By Ginat (1) on 30 May 2010

This is the most absurdly vacuous and unfunny comedy I've seen in decades -- a ridiculous, irritating, unrealistic piece of fluff fantasy for…

Read Review

Review of Town & Country (2001)

By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Jul 2002

The script's tone veers chaotically -- and ambitiously -- at once aiming for a Noel Coward kind of elegant sparring, then for the lightly raunchy,…

Read Review

Review of Bedlam (1946)

By Robyn M (1,282) on 31 Oct 2012

&(&^&^%$$%#!!!! Crazy awful. As a huge Boris Karloff fan I was left empty and dispirited…

Read Review

Review of Jatt James Bond (2014)

By Tejpal S (1) on 29 Apr 2014

In Jatt James Bond, the beautiful Zarine Khan, with milky-white supple skin, makes her debut in the Punjabi Movie Industry (which seems to…

Read Review

Review of Following (1999)

By Lesley N (203) on 20 Jun 2010

Pretty unrealistic, and gets boring after the original premise is pretty much discarded…

Read Review

Review of The Tall Guy (1989)

By Tim S (2,419) on 08 Oct 2011

Had its funny moments, few, but they were there. The story line is well…

Read Review

Review of Needle in a Timestack (2021)

By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Oct 2021

The film is too blinded by manufactured sentimentality to see the more compelling what-if scenario lying right in front of its eyes…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Breaking and Entering

2006

60%546 Reviews

The Holy Mountain

1973

76%579 Reviews

A Man Called Horse

1970

59%87 Reviews

Pump Up the Volume

1990

77%529 Reviews

The Future

2011

60%256 Reviews

Good Boys

2019

63%108 Reviews

Meet the Spartans

2008

26%526 Reviews

Tangled

2001

70%772 Reviews

Eight Below

2006

72%585 Reviews