Broker's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Daily
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.
Vanity Fair
Gentle, sad, and funny in a just-shy-of-cutesy way, Broker continues Kore-eda?s tradition of handling tough subject matter with a light touch.
Variety
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.
Time Out
The hackneyed thieves-with-a-heart-of-gold trope is reinvigorated by the sharpness of the writing and Song?s Basset Hound charms. While Broker occasionally gets close to cloying, especially in its neat ending and jaunty score, Koreeda keeps it the right side of cutesy. It?s best enjoyed as a modern-day fairy tale ? only, one where the abandoned baby sparks nothing but enchantment.
The Hollywood Reporter
Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote