Broken English

As a director, Cassavetes is a keen observer of character and social interaction but not yet much of a visual stylist (which might also describe the improvisational dramas made by her actor/director father, John).Read Full Review »

As charmingly verklemmt New York women with bad luck in men and good luck in apartments go, Nora Wilder in Broken English has all the breaks.Read Full Review »

A well-acted, smartly directed film that’s depressing because it could have amounted to so much more. It departs from the studio-financed romantic-comedy template in just one, unfortunately fatal respect: it makes a point of pride out of rejecting cliché, then swoons into its embrace.Read Full Review »

A wry, charming romance about a New York woman who has given up hope of finding love.Read Full Review »

A conventional New York-lonely hearts story made watchable by one element and one element only: Parker Posey.Read Full Review »

It's the kind of film that will resonate only with a tiny fraction of the available audience. Unless a viewer's age and situation mirrors that of Posey's Nora Wilder, odds are that this movie will generate a sense of déjà vu.Read Full Review »

There is a very good movie named "Before Sunset" that begins more or less where this one ends. Which tells you something right there.Read Full Review »

Despite its schizophrenic nature and often disagreeable characteristics, Broken English has flashes of something. You might say it has an integrity of purpose, if not of execution.Read Full Review »

Posey remains touching as the woman with happiness in sight but bewilderingly out of reach.Read Full Review »

If Broken English occasionally falls prey to a bit too much self-conscious lethargy, it's still a welcome chance to see Posey at her flighty, edgy best.Read Full Review »