Breaking Reviews
Brittany Patrice Witherspoon Pop Culture Reviews
It’s soft moments and great performances like these that are simply exceptional and elevated this derivative script to a great film.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 15, 2024
Rick Bentley KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA)
The always strong Connie Britton and Jeffrey Donovan round out a cast that is talented enough to make a bank robbery film that has been stripped down to its bare necessities as exciting as one with guns blazing.
Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 9, 2023
Zach Pope Zach Pope Reviews
Breaking showcases the powerhouse performances from John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, & of course the late but FANTASTIC Michael Kenneth Williams
Full Review | Jul 25, 2023
Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome
Breaking is an angry condemnation of Veterans Affairs, a twenty-first-century companion to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
Full Review | Jul 24, 2023
Maria Lattila WhyNow (UK)
Corbin’s inability to choose between a traditional thriller and a more intricate exploration of the US government’s treatment of veterans leaves Breaking lacking on all fronts.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2023
Stephen Romei The Australian
This movie is not Dog Day Afternoon but it is an honourable follower in its footsteps.
Full Review | Apr 3, 2023
Leslie Felperin Financial Times
Abi Damaris Corbin gently hints at how common factors such as bureaucratic inefficiency, institutional racism and the US’s culture of violence all share responsibility for what unfolds.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2023
Alistair Harkness Scotsman
Breaking provides John Boyega with a solid leading role in a film that doesn’t quite do enough to transcend its status as worthy message movie.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2023
Amy Smith InSession Film
I appreciate director and writer Abi Damaris Corbin for creating a challenging film that hits hard from start to finish. It is not a film that I will rush to watch again, but it is one that I feel everyone should check out.=
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 10, 2023
M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut
I admired John Boyega’s electric performance in Breaking, but the filmmakers let the human interest in Brian Brown-Easley’s story fall between the cracks.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 3, 2023
Chuck Wilson LA Weekly/Village Voice
Those blows came for Brian Brown-Easley in Iraq and Kuwait, and then kept on coming once he was home. The deeply felt Breaking, at least, restores honor to a good man.
Full Review | Dec 23, 2022
Shawn Edwards Fox 4 Kansas City
John Boyega is phenomenal in Breaking.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2022
Steve Erickson Nashville Scene
There’s a lot here, but by its conclusion the film itself feels as trapped as its characters.
Full Review | Oct 28, 2022
Luke Hicks Film School Rejects
Abi Damaris Corbin’s debut is about corrupt systems and the ways they silently ruin lives. Boyega, Beharie, and Michael K. Williams, are terrific — the boundless energy, the influx of unexpected choices, the way it all feels so incredibly real and tense.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2022
Loren King Newport This Week (RI)
John Boyega... delivers a bravura performance in Breaking as beaten down war veteran Brian Brown-Easley.
Full Review | Sep 23, 2022
Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Although Boyega and Williams never share the screen, the chemistry between two terrific actors — one sadly missed — is what elevates “Breaking.”
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2022
Russ Simmons WDAF-TV (Kansas City)
“Breaking” is a well-meaning social commentary with respectable results, but it never quite lives up to its dramatic potential.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2022
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
It's a fine film. Though humorless it speaks with passion and truth to today's issues between the vets and the military.
Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2022
James Verniere Boston Herald
John Boyega is brilliant in troubled veteran hostage crisis drama. A Dog Day Afternoon for our times.
Full Review | Original Score: A- | Sep 6, 2022
Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast
Quickly becomes an atypical standoff film with some solid performances that are failed by some cliched writing and a distancing from the complicated facts of what led this to happen in the first place.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2022