Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Sep 6, 2023 3.5/4

While this film may not impact the viewer on the same levels Minghella’s other work might have, audiences will walk away affected by a poem put to film and feel contented by the truths in the director’s symbolism.

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David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 14, 2021

Minghella has a conception of things, but it only loosely fits reality. His inventions, for the most part, fail to satisfy entirely. They rely a bit too much on clichés.

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David Lamble Bay Area Reporter May 20, 2020

Breaking and Entering is Anthony Minghella's provocative romantic thriller dedicated to the proposition that the truest love is mostly likely a crime of some sort, even if the criminals are never caught out.

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Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing Jan 30, 2020

Minghella takes Haneke's gravitas and transforms it into the brand of sorrowful yuppie chow and shallow treatment of alienation favored by angsty Hollywood melodramas such as Crash.

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 7, 2019

Polite and detached, the story waggles and waffles from start to finish, never bringing the emotional and societal complexities to fruition. BREAKING AND ENTERING should be "Breaking and Exiting." Break out of your seat and run to the nearest exit.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 D

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Dave White Movies.com Jan 22, 2010 C+

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 27, 2009

One-hundred percent uncut bourgeois fantasy

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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Mar 18, 2008 2.5/4

Though intricately plotted and well acted, Minghella's characters feel more like symbols than flesh-and-blood characters, and their travails seem designed to illustrate a lecture about privilege, injustice, cultural stereotypes and bourgeois complacency.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Mar 18, 2008

The complicated interactions involving class and culture that ensue between all these characters remain fascinating even when they seem overly schematic.

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Renee Schonfeld Common Sense Media Oct 22, 2007 4/5

Insightful, contemporary love story for adults.

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Lou Lumenick New York Post Aug 22, 2007 2/4

Though Binoche does very solid work, she can't sell the idea of her and Law as a couple; the chemistry isn't there. Not much else rings true in Minghella's screenplay, which is full of coincidences and speeches about race and class.

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Jason Gorber Film Scouts Jun 21, 2007 B+

A convoluted plot of break-ins, architectural redevelopment and mid-30s life crises mask a fairly standard tale of a love triangle.

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Ryan Cracknell Movie Views May 27, 2007

Everything in Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering is torn and in need of mending....And like the flaw's set within the confines of the film, the movie itself is in need of a little tinkering itself.

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Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine May 4, 2007

The pitch meeting must have been frightening: "Caché for fans of Chocolat."

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Matt Brunson Creative Loafing Apr 18, 2007 2.5/4

A messy yet occasionally affecting drama.

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Enrique Buchichio Uruguay Total Apr 6, 2007 2/5

Un drama urbano muy contemporáneo que explora superficialmente ciertas realidades sociales, pero que presta más atención a las crisis domésticas de sus personajes. Podría haber sido mucho más interesante.

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Jean-François Vandeuren Panorama Mar 24, 2007 7/10

Minghella signe une %u0153uvre enivrante énumérant avec tact et intelligence les valeurs d'honnêteté, de respect et de confiance découlant de chacune de ses résolutions de conflit.

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Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Mar 21, 2007

Class friction and the ensuing cinema of paranoia evidence of the growing class divide on screen

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mar 18, 2007 82/100

...a handsome but regrettably underpowered and preachy movie about liberal white guilt.

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