It’s soft moments and great performances like these that are simply exceptional and elevated this derivative script to a great film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 15, 2024

The always strong Connie Britton and Jeffrey Donovan round out a cast that is talented enough to make a bank robbery film that has been stripped down to its bare necessities as exciting as one with guns blazing.

| Original Score: B | Aug 9, 2023

Breaking showcases the powerhouse performances from John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, & of course the late but FANTASTIC Michael Kenneth Williams

| Jul 25, 2023

Breaking is an angry condemnation of Veterans Affairs, a twenty-first-century companion to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”

| Jul 24, 2023

Corbin’s inability to choose between a traditional thriller and a more intricate exploration of the US government’s treatment of veterans leaves Breaking lacking on all fronts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2023

This movie is not Dog Day Afternoon but it is an honourable follower in its footsteps.

| Apr 3, 2023

Abi Damaris Corbin gently hints at how common factors such as bureaucratic inefficiency, institutional racism and the US’s culture of violence all share responsibility for what unfolds.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2023

Breaking provides John Boyega with a solid leading role in a film that doesn’t quite do enough to transcend its status as worthy message movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2023

I appreciate director and writer Abi Damaris Corbin for creating a challenging film that hits hard from start to finish. It is not a film that I will rush to watch again, but it is one that I feel everyone should check out.=

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 10, 2023

I admired John Boyega’s electric performance in Breaking, but the filmmakers let the human interest in Brian Brown-Easley’s story fall between the cracks.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 3, 2023

Those blows came for Brian Brown-Easley in Iraq and Kuwait, and then kept on coming once he was home. The deeply felt Breaking, at least, restores honor to a good man.

| Dec 23, 2022

John Boyega is phenomenal in Breaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2022

There’s a lot here, but by its conclusion the film itself feels as trapped as its characters.

| Oct 28, 2022

Abi Damaris Corbin’s debut is about corrupt systems and the ways they silently ruin lives. Boyega, Beharie, and Michael K. Williams, are terrific — the boundless energy, the influx of unexpected choices, the way it all feels so incredibly real and tense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2022

John Boyega... delivers a bravura performance in Breaking as beaten down war veteran Brian Brown-Easley.

| Sep 23, 2022

Although Boyega and Williams never share the screen, the chemistry between two terrific actors — one sadly missed — is what elevates “Breaking.”

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2022

“Breaking” is a well-meaning social commentary with respectable results, but it never quite lives up to its dramatic potential.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2022

It's a fine film. Though humorless it speaks with passion and truth to today's issues between the vets and the military.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2022

John Boyega is brilliant in troubled veteran hostage crisis drama. A Dog Day Afternoon for our times.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 6, 2022

Quickly becomes an atypical standoff film with some solid performances that are failed by some cliched writing and a distancing from the complicated facts of what led this to happen in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2022