Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

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The film is downright aggravating.

January 6, 2006 Full Review

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

Breakfast on Pluto may seem a fairy tale at times (no pun intended), but this Kitten has claws.

January 6, 2006 Full Review

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Like Kitten and everything else about Breakfast on Pluto, it's altogether too overstated and obvious, but at least it doesn't pretend to have any significance whatsoever.

January 6, 2006 Full Review

Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

Top Critic

[Jordan] successfully grafts two Irish literary modes, snappy social satire and gloomy dirge.

January 5, 2006

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Perhaps too audacious for some and too coy for others, Breakfast on Pluto is one of those mercurial movies where you really have no idea where it'll take you next. Like its star, it's smart, mischievous and fearless.

January 1, 2006 Full Review

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Top Critic

Held together by a brilliant fiber of obscure pop songs from the era, Breakfast on Pluto may be Jordan's most agreeable mixture of wisdom and whimsy.

December 27, 2005 Full Review

Ted Fry

Seattle Times

Top Critic

Rambling romance about a man truely in love with himself. Cilian Murphy has great talent, but not in this loser directed by Neil Jordan. My advice to Murphy...speak up and stop mumbling.

January 15, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Celebratory subversion

August 30, 2009 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Murphy's turn as the irrepressible Kitten is simply mesmerising - outrageous, tender and full of the sort of deep pain that no amount of make-up can conceal.

July 2, 2007 Full Review

Anton Bitel

Eye for Film

Another cross-dressing flick from Jordan, but this time with a wry sense of humour and whimsy, coupled with a fine soundtrack of UK bubblegum 70s tunes.

June 21, 2007 Full Review

Jason Gorber

Film Scouts

(...) Como buena fábula ambientada en el Londres de los '70, no pueden faltar el glam rock, los pantalones Oxford y la violencia del IRA.

May 30, 2007 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

This is a long film that audiences will either love or dismiss.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

Doris Toumarkine

Film Journal International

Roaring with real life, Breakfast on Pluto belongs in that treasured subgenre, the gender bending memoir ...Cillian Murphy gives a career high performance as Kitten, so silky, so tough, so completely real that it haunts us.

August 10, 2006 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

Moderately entertaining fare.

July 22, 2006 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Make your way toward Pluto and don't forget your bottle of Chanel No. 5!

April 19, 2006 Full Review

Keith Uhlich

Slant Magazine

• 1. Hooker: Oi. You doing business, do it somewhere else, love. This pavement's got my name on it.
  2. Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden: And what, pray, is your name? Concrete?
  3. Hooker: My name is scratch your eyes out, and bite your bleed'n nose off. Which is what I'll do if you don't get off my patch.
  4. Mr. Silky String: She giving you trouble, son?
  5. Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden: Oh, no trouble at all. We were just exchanging names.
  – Submitted by Paula W (8 months ago)
• 1. Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden: If I wasn't a transvestite terrorist, would you marry me?
  – Submitted by Paula W (8 months ago)
• 1. Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden: Not many people can take the tale of Patrick Braden, aka St. Kitten, who strutted the catwalks, face lit by a halo of flashbulbs as 'oh!' she shrieks, 'I told you, from my best side darlings.'
  – Submitted by Paula W (8 months ago)

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