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Plot Summary
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, "Breaking & Entering" follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. When a landscape architect's (Jude Law) state-of-the-art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him out of the safety of his familiar world.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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33%- Reviews Counted: 126
- Fresh: 42
- Rotten: 84
- Average Rating: 5.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Everything flows from the film's fundamental lethargy -- a hero without a spine, a romance without joy and a crime with neither moral rebuke nor consequences. No surprise that the story, like the protagonist, floats along in a noodly sort of way.
Rotten: Breaking and Entering is about a kind of white privileged guilt and the apologies that come with it. Minghella gingerly backs away from provocation, from realism.
Rotten: 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.
Rotten: Starts busily, and soon becomes a bafflement -- such an interesting cast, such technical excellence, so many intricate details and parallel plot threads, yet so little clarity or urgency.
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