I Am Breathing
| Release Date: September 6, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The PlaylistChristopher SchobertSep 6, 2013
I Am Breathing is not a documentary intended to induce sobbing. It is, instead, a film about dying that is stunningly alive, wildly optimistic, and always insightful and entertaining. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungSep 11, 2013
The last couple of years in one tragically truncated life are chronicled with a winning combination of sensitivity and humor in I Am Breathing. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comScott Jordan HarrisSep 6, 2013
An earnest and important film. It deserves to be seen by anyone who is interested in documentaries and anyone who is interested in the simple human stories movies too often overlook. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonSep 4, 2013
A deeply affecting glimpse of a man's quest to salvage beauty from tragedy. Read full review
70
VarietyEddie CockrellSep 19, 2013
Not so much harrowing as achingly reflective. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonSep 12, 2013
"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldSep 6, 2013
Mr. Platt’s good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism. Read full review
60
The GuardianMike McCahillSep 4, 2013
The directors' intimate domestic images only occasionally match the humour and ruminative poetry of their subject's own, blog-published words, but ghoulishness and undue sentimentality are kept at bay. Read full review
40
Time OutAndrew SchenkerSep 4, 2013
Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon’s doc walks the line between a deathwatch film and an uplifting one, rather than simply rubbing the viewer’s nose in the horror of mortality. Read full review
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