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By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 13 May 2013

A moving and visually beautiful story of an eleven-year old girl who is increasingly drawn into the complicated and cruel world of the everyday…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 May 2013

The adaptation from the novel is excellent, a fine example of how character and place can be sculpted from prose…

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By Eddie Harrison (272) for The List (2,018) on 19 Mar 2013

The final suggestion that people on medication are just a mood-swing from being a danger to the community consigns Norris's dull-looking film…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 10 Mar 2013

Erupts into unpersuasive, blood-drenched melodrama that is no doubt intended as a wake-up call to a troubled country…

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By Damon Wise (265) for Radio Times (2,421) on 08 Mar 2013

Laurence in particular is dynamic as Norris's young muse, a guileless screen presence who effortlessly charms us back to childhood…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 08 Mar 2013

It presents a portrait of British life that may indeed make you wonder about the origins of the 2011 riots, but also misses as many targets…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 08 Mar 2013

While this strikingly well-made film is a great calling card for rising-star filmmaker Norris, it's also so relentlessly dark and unsettling…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 08 Mar 2013

Roth is charming and Laurence is an intriguing young talent to watch, but Broken is a shaggy dog story wallowing in emotions that it seldom earns…

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By Grant Rollings (123) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 07 Mar 2013

As is so often the case with gritty British realism, it sacrifices the realism for extra piles of grit…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 07 Mar 2013

Mainly worth seeing for a sparky performance by Eloise Laurence, whose cheeky smile lights up the surrounding miserabilism…

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By Henry Fitzherbert (699) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 07 Mar 2013

The cast are terrific - including Cillian Murphy as a sympathetic teacher - but it's a tough watch…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 07 Mar 2013

A promising debut from a first-time director, but Laurence is the real find here…

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By David Gritten (155) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 07 Mar 2013

Norris and his director of photography Rob Hardy have shot it with stylish confidence, but Mark O’Rowe’s script (adapted from Daniel Clay’s…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 06 Mar 2013

A bleak vision of modern Britain that just escapes slipping into a slough of miserabalism by virtue of some light-hearted segments…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Mar 2013

If its script is a little unwieldy and overwrought at times, Broken is still a work of delightful moments and strong promise for many of those…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Star (403) on 05 Mar 2013

The film could have done with fewer characters and a tighter plot but it's still an accomplished debut for director Rufus Norris…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 25 Feb 2013

Believably charts a girl’s coming of age but is eventually capsized by lurid melodrama…

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By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 18 May 2012

There are simply too many characters jostling for attention and too many competing plot strands in a not-quite-seamless marriage of hard-edged…

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