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By Rania Richardson (23) for The Villager (11) on 06 Dec 2018

This heart-wrenching tale is the cinematic equivalent of a twangy country song…

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By Lynden Barber (66) for Limelight (63) on 02 Jan 2018

Clear your head of any awkward preconceptions and prepare for a wild emotional ride that takes you from the heights of amorous passion to the…

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By Gilda Williams (1) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Jun 2016

Constantly you worry that the movie will collapse under the strain of more raw emotions but it rarely falters and never lapses into the predictable…

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By Landon Palmer (30) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 01 Jun 2014

I wish the patience and grace of the director's techniques in the film's strongest non-musical moments were matched in his depictions of the…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 18 May 2014

It's a film about a couple whose tumultuous relationship is severely challenged, and the performances are excellent…

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By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 18 May 2014

Where the Coen brothers gently mocked th[e] music in O Brother Where art Thou…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 15 May 2014

There are plenty of touching, powerful moments in director Felix Van Groeningen's child-with-cancer drama...though [it's] somewhat laboured…

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By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 12 May 2014

In spite of the bleak premise the film isn't an emotional force…

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By Margaret Pomeranz (380) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 12 May 2014

It is for most of its length a strong involving narrative with wonderful performances from the two leads, Heldenbergh and Baetens and a simply…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 10 May 2014

The juxtaposition of bluegrass music in this heavy-hitting drama about love and loss brings with it an unexpected and exquisite timbre…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 06 Apr 2014

Broken Circle Breakdown ends with a communal song in a confined space, not a dirge, but with hushed voices raised in envoi, and Groeningen's…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 11 Mar 2014

Electric sexiness and very modern motifs overlie a wonderfully old-fashioned melodrama... a highly gratifying one, if you enjoy a good ol' weep…

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By Scott Nash (692) for Three Movie Buffs (692) on 26 Feb 2014

Raises itself far above its Lifetime Movie of the Week premise…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 09 Feb 2014

The Broken Circle Breakdown doesn't jerk tears. It attempts to extract them by using enhanced interrogation techniques…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Jan 2014

The movie swings like a pendulum between elation and despair, with little time devoted to anything in between…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 24 Jan 2014

Like the Irish film Once, it’s a drama about the lives of musical performers who sing songs within the film to illustrate the emotional journey…

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By Bruce Ingram (70) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 24 Jan 2014

Director Felix Van Groeningen takes a story that might be too much to bear in a straightforward, linear narrative and explodes it, then artfully…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Jan 2014

Breakdown gets the music right and has the benefit of strong acting, but its unapologetically melodramatic plot has a tendency to throw everything…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 22 Jan 2014

Science-versus-religion debates don't usually feature music this good…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 15 Jan 2014

Uma daquelas obras que, por mais que eu tenha apreciado, sei que jamais voltarei a assistir - e isto é, acreditem, um elogio…

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