A Mouthful of Air

"The film needed less sensitive good taste and more explicit storytelling passion."

"The movie’s portrait of depression often feels as facile as its opening image: Julie’s wide blue eyes with a single tear trailing down her cheek."

"The film is too haunted by helplessness to risk feeling didactic, but this is unambiguously a message movie..."

"A Mouthful of Air is missing the specificity that could help its depiction feel authentic."

"Koppelman keeps things grounded, spare and refreshingly small-scale."

"Preferring to imply rather than show or tell, the film is too affected to tug at the heartstrings..."

"(It is) sensitive and well-intentioned but strained."

"It’s Seyfried who carries the picture with her performance of a woman on the edge."

"Harrowing..."

"The script is a solid and often unsettling one."