The overwrought drama, cliched characters and stale story lines undermine the wholesome message and make the movie seem longer than its 99 minutes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 13, 2018

| Original Score: C- | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 10, 2009

This is glossy, forgettable fare more at home as a 온라인카지노추천 matinée.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2009

That's a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Apr 17, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2009

It has all the philosophical depth of a greetings card message but it's underscored with a nasty little edge of misogyny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Not Easily Broken is 99 long minutes worth of sobbing and hand wringing, with little insight and even less humour. Deadly stuff.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

This is sermonising, not drama, and I suspect I won't be alone in finding it obnoxiously misogynistic.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2009

rather crude, occasionally risible, if never actively dislikeable melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2009

This lump of telly melodrama is basically a bland, off-puttingly shouty sermon in film's clothing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Well acted, but ultimately disappointing drama that's let down by a tedious script, sluggish direction, cloying sentimentality and an overwhelmingly sanctimonious central message.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Reactionary, misogynistic marital drama.

| Apr 17, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 16, 2009

a Tyler Perry movie without the Tyler Perry

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 7, 2009

If the crisis the couple endures seems real, the resolution needs a little more work to be convincing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 6.0/10 | Jan 30, 2009