Hold Your Breath
Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): October 3, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
78
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 2, 2024
In a genre overly taken as of late with “elevated” trauma scares, its gritty, skillful menace is a breath of fresh air. Read full review
60
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaSep 16, 2024
The film often does too much, reaching for too many different sources for its attempted thrills and chills, which results in a mostly scattered experience. However, it has a couple of notable strengths. The first is its handful of tense moments. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganOct 3, 2024
For all of the horror subgenres crammed into Hold Your Breath, it never conjures sufficient scares. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 3, 2024
It’s anchored by a typically strong Sarah Paulson performance, to be sure. But “Hold Your Breath” is nonetheless a frustrating work, a sequence of powerful scenes that aren’t tied together with enough tension to make us care. It’s a film filled with moments but no momentum. Read full review
50
ObserverOliver JonesOct 2, 2024
All of this furious, empty noise keeps reminding you that you’re watching a cheesy horror film that is not confident enough in the story it’s telling to avoid succumbing to old tricks. Read full review
40
EmpireMatt GlasbyOct 7, 2024
For a debut feature, this dustbowl survival flick shows undeniable promise. But committed performances and striking cinematography can’t stop a shaky narrative crumbling at the last.  Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiOct 4, 2024
When a film is trying to tell three stories at once, it’s bound to get tied up in its own narrative misgivings, and Hold Your Breath is certainly culpable of that. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeOct 4, 2024
Paulson’s commitment is unwavering, and it’s refreshing to see her in genre material a little more grounded than what the various American Horror Stories have given her, but she’s an actor in search of better material and, sadly, Hold Your Breath means that search is ongoing. Read full review
40
ColliderShaina WeatherheadSep 13, 2024
Sarah Paulson breathes life into a so-so script, but the film's slow pace and lack of strong horror hold it back. Read full review
30
TheWrapChase HutchinsonJan 21, 2025
Even as Paulson is putting her all into the film and can firmly grab hold of you at some moments as her strong-willed matriarch comes undone, much like the dust that is floating around the confined setting, it all slips through her fingers. Read full review
25
The PlaylistAnkit JhunjhunwalaSep 16, 2024
Hold Your Breath is a strange beast—there aren’t enough thrills for horror heads nor any blood and gore for slasher fans. Even as straight drama, it isn’t entirely successful. Read full review
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