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Cast
- Tim RothArchie
- Eloise LaurenceSkunk
- Cillian MurphyMike Kiernan
- Zana MarjanovićKasia
- Robert EmmsRick Buckley
- Rory KinnearBob Oswald
- Rosalie KoskySusan Oswald
- Bill MilnerJed
- Denis LawsonMr. Buckley
- Clare BurtMrs. Buckley
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
It's the rare coming-of-age narrative that manages to respect the tricky ambiguities of shifting perceptions. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Rufus Norris’s debut film, Broken, is a fractured, tonally scrambled British coming-of-age movie with flashes of greatness and an intensely felt performance by a young actress named Eloise Laurence. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
There are simply too many characters jostling for attention and too many competing plot strands in a not-quite-seamless marriage of hard-edged social realism with a lyrical novelistic overlay. That said, the film is rich in poignant moments and negotiates its frequent shifts from violence to gentleness to sorrow with sensitivity. - 60
Total Film
Believably charts a girl’s coming of age but is eventually capsized by lurid melodrama. - 60
Time Out London
If its script is a little unwieldy and overwrought at times, Broken is still a work of delightful moments and strong promise for many of those involved. Norris works hard to inject some joy and wonder into what could easily be a much more dark and miserable experience. - 60
Time Out
The first feature from British theater director Rufus Norris deftly mixes gritty realism and lyrical impressionism, though its five-car pileup of a climax ultimately makes the film feel less a Greek tragedy than a miniseries in miniature. - 50
Variety
Norris’ film does find a beating heart, if not exactly a focus, in the tender father-daughter relationship between Archie and Skunk, nicely underplayed by Roth and Laurence. - 50
Village Voice
Unfortunately, Broken lives up to its mawkish title, and the slice-of-life tragedies of the film's first half devolve into manipulative melodrama in the latter part. When society breaks, the spell does, too.
