Broker

Reviews

• "BROKER keeps on getting funnier and knottier as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, mysteries deepen and dangers multiply. It is, on one level, a farcical crime caper, but it is so elegantly plotted that it never seems contrived."
  - BBC
• "It’s one of the master’s most transparent and — when it comes to confrontations about what parents, and specifically women, can or should do for themselves and for the babies they are forever bound to — brave films of his career."
  - IndieWire
• "As often with Kore-eda’s pictures, BROKER is about family, but it extends beyond that theme to talk about fundamental aspects of life — the need to belong, the hope of connecting with likeminded souls, and the desire to find a place called home."
  - Screen Daily
• "Absorbing and heartwarming, it’s easy to forget that this tender drama is about human trafficking."
  - The Playlist
• "Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment."
  - The Hollywood Reporter
• "The hackneyed thieves-with-a-heart-of-gold trope is reinvigorated by the sharpness of the writing and Song’s Basset Hound charms. "
  - Time Out
• "Kore-eda is surprisingly generous toward his characters, nearly all of whom are breaking the law, but whose fundamental decency is brought out when dealing with others in need."
  - Variety
• "Broker is sentimental and sweet, often funny, and a lighter take on Kore-eda’s ongoing project of exploring chosen families."
  - Vox