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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60EmpireHelen O'HaraEmpireHelen O'HaraThere's a hint of comforting, chocolate-box, Sunday-night TV here, but it's delivered via such quietly powerful performances and with such hope that it's hard to resist.
- 50RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe performances and the inherent power of the true story keep it from being a complete disaster, but one hopes Serkis moves on to more challenging material with his follow-up.
- 50Screen DailyWendy IdeScreen DailyWendy IdeThe lack of emotional distance between the filmmakers and the subject – producer Jonathan Cavendish is the son of Robin and Diana – might account for the bracingly celebratory approach. This is understandable, perhaps, but it results in a lack of dramatic light and shade, and an absence of texture in the characterisation.
- 50Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithThe film is an easily digestible replica of the truth, bathed in honeyed cinematography and sentimentalized adulation.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIn leaving out the rasp of life from this unusual story, Breathe too often feels like a mechanized exhale.
- 42The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerBreathe seems to want nothing more than to be "The Theory Of Everything" for a slightly newer generation.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonBreathe is clearly aiming for the same heart-wrenching emotional heights as James Marsh’s Oscar-winning Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything. But this is very much a crude copy, its noble intentions hobbled by a trite script, flat characters and a relentlessly saccharine tone that eventually starts to grate.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOffering no hint of the backbreaking drudgery and mental strain of their predicament, this gauzy picture (produced by the couple’s son, Jonathan Cavendish, and directed by his friend, the actor Andy Serkis) is a closed loop of rose-tinted memories.