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A Mouthful of Air

2021

Amy Koppelman

Amanda Seyfried, Britt Robertson, Jennifer Carpenter, Finn Wittrock ...

5.9

78

Drama Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.

	Author	Review
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"Empathetic but insubstantial (...) Alternating between delicacy and preciousness (...) The film is too affected to tug at the heartstrings"	NEU
United States	Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times	"Almost every aspect of Koppelman’s screenplay lacks precision and depth (...) [It] is missing the specificity that could help its depiction feel authentic."	NEG
United States	Simon Abrams The Wrap	"[The makers] so much time defining their characters’ boundaries that they ultimately force viewers to fill in the most meaningful gaps in Julie’s story"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Seyfried’s performance sidesteps histrionics in favor of something more honest and upsetting"	POS
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Though it’s not without cinematic touches and affecting (...) the drama is often hampered by an instructive sensibility that gives it the air of a feature-length PSA"	NEU
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"Thanks largely to an effective and ultimately moving performance from Amanda Seyfried, this film (...) is difficult to absorb under any circumstance (...) The storytelling however is uneven."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The film needed less sensitive good taste and more explicit storytelling passion (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Brianna Zigler The Playlist	"[It] illustrates quite wrenchingly how the ground that depression sows in someone is not something from which true happiness can always thrive. But it's also inaccessible to the audience"	NEU
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"'A Mouthful of Air' offers mere glimpses of Julie's postpartum depression and, while it does so with empathy and some care, it fails to build out its story through more thoughtful character development (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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