“[…] this moderately amusing comedy with music […]. Along the way there is little to suggest the old Clair wit and humor. […T]he performances are uninspired. […] and the one song which Cole Porter has written for them to sing lacks the spark.”Bosley Crowther: ‘Break the News,’ a Rene Clair Effort, at the Bryant. In: The New York Times, 2. Januar 1941.
