Midwinter Break

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Midwinter Break

PG-13

Feb 2026

1h 30m

Drama

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MIDWINTER BREAK is a stirring meditation on faith, commitment, and the enduring power of love, as a longtime couple takes a life-changing trip to Amsterdam.

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While Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville are characteristically terrific playing off each other, this rumination on love and spirituality is so restrained that it veers into tedium.

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Keith Uhlich

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Feb 27

Feature-debuting theater director Polly Findlay keeps things gentle and dutiful, with even the should-be-revelatory scenes (Manville’s teary to-a-stranger confessional, particularly) curdled by senescent sentiment.

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Feb 25

“Midwinter Break” does nothing earth-shattering (it remains wee), but the movie touchingly colors in how it might be possible for two people to know each other too well and also not well enough.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Feb 24

3/4

What keeps the movie from being oppressive is Manville’s three-dimensional embodiment of Stella.

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Leigh Paatsch

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

52m

3.5/5

A touch depressing, yes, but always worthwhile.

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Maxance Vincent

InSession Film

Mar 4

B+

Don’t let this movie fly off your radar.

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

Feb 26

In every sense, a movie for grown-ups

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Anita K

4d

Slow moving and most boring!

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Bob G

Mar 4

not terrible not great.

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Randle

Mar 2

Very slow. Good characters and acting. Plot twist is underwhelming.

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Mike

Mar 1

Slow, but that's on purpose. It's a very small movie, about two people who are trying to navigate their lives. I'm glad I saw it, and now want to read the book.

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Mindy

Mar 1

It was a very slow, dark and sad movie. We didn’t like it at all.

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Patti

Feb 28

Depressing from start to finish !!!

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Polly Findlay

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Lesley Manville

Stella

Ciarán Hinds

Gerry

Niamh Cusack

Kathy

Leila Laaraj

Hennie

Julie Lamberton

Young Stella

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Synopsis

MIDWINTER BREAK is a stirring meditation on faith, commitment, and the enduring power of love, as a longtime couple takes a life-changing trip to Amsterdam.

Director: Polly Findlay
Producer: Guy Heeley, Floor Onrust
Screenwriter: Bernard MacLaverty, Nick Payne
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Shoebox Films, Film4
Rating: PG-13 (Some Strong Language|Bloody Images|Alcoholism|Suggestive Material|Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 20, 2026, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $506.8K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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