Not Easily Broken Reviews
BET.com
The always immaculate, passionate and soulful Jenifer Lewis -- she could read the words in a phone book and make you feel it. The Hollywood veteran nearly saves the film.
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| Original Score: C+
Daily Express
This is glossy, forgettable fare more at home as a TV matinée.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticThat's a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes.
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| Original Score: 2/6
Film4
It is unspeakably naff, unintentionally funny and unapologetically Christian. Judged on its own terms, it's a resounding success. But for non-believers it will likely prove a living purgatory.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Times [UK]
It has all the philosophical depth of a greetings card message but it's underscored with a nasty little edge of misogyny.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Guardian [UK]
What should be easily broken is a large china vase over the head of everyone involved in this profoundly creepy, yucky, and chillingly reactionary relationship drama.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Total Film
Not Easily Broken is 99 long minutes worth of sobbing and hand wringing, with little insight and even less humour. Deadly stuff.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Mail [UK]
This is sermonising, not drama, and I suspect I won't be alone in finding it obnoxiously misogynistic.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
With its sermonising about the importance of being strong in the face of marital adversity - not to mention a sappy voiceover on the nature of suffering - the film feels more like a lecture than a drama.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Financial Times
rather crude, occasionally risible, if never actively dislikeable melodrama.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ViewLondon
Well acted, but ultimately disappointing drama that's let down by a tedious script, sluggish direction, cloying sentimentality and an overwhelmingly sanctimonious central message.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Teletext
The film so goes against the grain of seculist and feminist thought that you just have to shrug your shoulders and ask: Hell, is it any good as a movie? Not really.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Filmcritic.com
a Tyler Perry movie without the Tyler Perry
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
eFilmCritic.com
If the crisis the couple endures seems real, the resolution needs a little more work to be convincing.
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| Original Score: 3/5
NYC Movie Guru
The terrific ensemble cast...help to invigorate Not Easily Broken from being merely a ho-hum, contrived film to a mildly engaging melodrama much like a Tyler Perry film.
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| Original Score: 6.0/10
Sacramento News & Review
...saved from being substandard Tyler Perry material by the sincere performances of the two stars...
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| Original Score: 3/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
This isn't a 'religious movie.' But it's about characters who do indeed have religion in their lives.
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Austin Chronicle
Mostly, Not Easily Broken is a pat portrayal of a marriage, neither overly dull nor especially engaging.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
L.A. Weekly
'Don't go all Waiting to Exhale on me,' advises one of Clarice's soul sisters late in the film. If only.
