One feels a little frightened for Anniston's character on occasion. The misogynistic tone of the script is palpable.

| Feb 14, 2021

This is a perfect date movie if you plan on dumping the person you're with when the movie is over.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

So, pick a side, any side. We all know that breaking up is hard to do. You can at least do it with laughter with The Break Up.

| Nov 7, 2019

was mostly shocked by Vince Vaughan, who showed me for the first time that he wasn't the long-delayed immature frat boy he so often plays, but actually an imperfect hilarious, yet often silly, character who's main flaw is his selfishness.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 7, 2011

The two stars remain painfully wrong for each other

| Aug 30, 2009

Is anxious to be a modern "Annie Hall," but really it is just a tedious, glum, and god awful affair.

| Apr 29, 2009

"The Break-Up" comes with a slap and a kiss that's at once bracing and pleasing.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 23, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Stereotypes across the board, puerile one-upmanship games, and an utter failure to explain why, indeed, these two even were together.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 11, 2007

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2007

High-aimed intentions are thrown askew by the reliance on inconsistent laughs seemingly meant to break the otherwise overriding tension.

| Jul 3, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 30, 2007

| Original Score: C- | May 7, 2007

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.

| Mar 1, 2007

..."The Break Up" may go down with "Fatal Attraction" as the worst "date" movie of all time.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 13, 2006

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2006

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.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 22, 2006

A romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor particularly funny.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 8, 2006