The Break-Up Reviews
ComingSoon.net
The Break-Up is a funny and light comedy, but it tries to be something a bit more without being something a bit more, hampered by shoddy characterization, ending up a bit empty.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ColeSmithey.com
"The Break-Up" comes with a slap and a kiss that's at once bracing and pleasing.
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| Original Score: B-
BrandonFibbs.com
A word of caution to anyone heading off to see The Break-Up with the assumption that it is a romantic comedy: this is not a comedy movie with a serious side -- it is a serious movie with a comedic side.
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| Original Score: 6/10
eFilmCritic.com
Stereotypes across the board, puerile one-upmanship games, and an utter failure to explain why, indeed, these two even were together.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top Critic"The Break-Up": A brilliantly uncompromising, often harsh but very accurate examination of a relationship unraveling
Projection Booth
High-aimed intentions are thrown askew by the reliance on inconsistent laughs seemingly meant to break the otherwise overriding tension.
Providence American
Right up there with the best of the revenge genre, and earns praise from this critic for its sophisticated brand of humor which kept me in stitches from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film Journal International
Not even the tacked-on ending, hinting at some future sparks between Brooke and Gary, can lighten the sturm und drang in this break-up.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
..."The Break Up" may go down with "Fatal Attraction" as the worst "date" movie of all time.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Movies for the Masses
full review in Greek
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| Original Score: 3/5
Now Playing Magazine
There's nothing broken about The Break-Up, which turns rom-com conventions on their side in free-wheeling fashion, and in doing so colorfully, wittily celebrates what it is about men and women that both attract one another and drives us crazy.
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| Original Score: B+
Christianity Today
A romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor particularly funny.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
3BlackChicks Review
A little broken, but worth the viewing.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Blogcritics.org
[I]t combines a naked desire to please the audience with a try-anything approach of the kind that made Wedding Crashers such a desperate stab at entertainment.
FilmFocus
It's still very much a quick and painless Hollywood production, what slight genius there is in its premise dulled by the sheen of the high production values and its prettier-than-pretty cast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
It's never less than entertaining and the chemistry between our two leads, whatever their personal circumstances, really holds things together.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
This is that branch of the romantic comedy known as 'a relationship movie', but generally short on witty lines and amusing incidents.
Empire Magazine
The Break-Up doesn't turn the rom-com on its head, but with its focus on the darker side of love manages to gently tip it on its side.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sharp dialogue and detailed observations make it a good deal funnier than you might expect.
