Not Easily Broken isn't perfect, but it is persuasive in its portrait of a husband and wife who must decide whether their frayed marriage is worth fighting to save.
– Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan 2009
fresh:
[It] has the saving grace of a lively sense of humor that certainly helps the spiritual medicine go down.
– Kirk Honeycutt,
Hollywood Reporter,
9 Jan 2009
fresh:
Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target.
– Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan 2009
rotten:
'Don't go all Waiting to Exhale on me,' advises one of Clarice's soul sisters late in the film. If only.
– Scott Foundas,
L.A. Weekly,
15 Jan 2009
rotten:
That's a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes.