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Breaking Upwards
Directed by
Daryl Wein
TV-MA
2009
88m
Comedy
,
Romance
6.0
60%
58%
5.4
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A young New York couple intricately strategize their own break up.
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Breaking Upwards Ratings & Reviews
IFC.com
Lisa Rosman
In this plodding, plotting gimmick of a film, only Pablo Schreiber, as Zoe's loutish rebound, and the rarely seen Andrea Martin, as Zoe's oversharing mom, come off smelling like a rose.
Boston Globe
Tom Russo
Scenes meant to play as breezy and hip are more often just annoying.
Boston Phoenix
Michael C. Walsh
Wein's debut feature is kind of a mess: he withholds and warps the emotions of the main characters till there's little sympathy to be had. But though this tactic is usually enough to derail a film, it works here...
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
Whiny and self-indulgent.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Clint O'Connor
Yes, it's a little low-budget loopy. But that's part of its charm. Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein explore new relationship-ending methods with wry indie flare.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Breaking Upwards has its amusing and touching moments, but we're left wondering just what we're supposed to make of it all.
Entertainment Insiders
Janos Gereben
As with most films about young love won and lost, Breaking Upwards comes from a place of genuine pain, honesty, and most importantly, delusion.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Comes knocking at the door like a wolf in sheep's clothing, draping reality in a fictional romantic comedy about a twentysomething NYC couple named Daryl and Zoe whose relationship is coming apart.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
While Alex Bergman's photography is often impressive, Wein's editing has the short attention span of a Hollywood movie, without the accompanying cocaine rush.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Much ado about a very rote situation, with a hammy excess of New York Jewish shtick (lead offender: Andrea Martin as Zoe's kvetching mom).
Boxoffice Magazine
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
A comfy, up-tempo view of the New York indie-verse that has strong regional flourish, feeling less like a glamour shot of NY and more like a view of the city that never sleeps from a well worn studio with a big bed.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Watching this movie is no more interesting than talking to any random New York couple about what makes them tick.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Like many relationships, Breaking Upwards starts in bed and ends on the street. The journey in between, however, feels as new as anything a tiny budget and a boatload of talent could produce.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
heads and tails above the rest of the "New York Hipsters in Love" movies that have come out lately.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
centers around a pair of three-dimensional, neurotic, interesting characters and has a strong, certain rhythm that sets it apart.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
The duo's longtime partnership imparts a palpable, lived-in intimacy, but lack of careful story construction sometimes hobbles the narrative's comic flow.
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
Reportedly drawing on their own romantic relationship, Wein and Lister-Jones have co-written a low-budget romantic comedy that's smart and lively and, in the end, quite affecting.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Makes one yet again wonder why filmmakers continually attempt to create art that will last out of relationships that didn't.
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