Inhale
IFC Films | Release Date: October 22, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
5
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85
NPRElla TaylorOct 22, 2010
What is singular about Inhale is the intelligent way in which plot and character keep opening up the moral landscape so as to complicate our responses to Paul's multiplying dilemmas. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedOct 21, 2010
Soberly and responsibly, a small but significant film called Inhale, starring the underrated, charismatic and terrifically accomplished Dermot Mulroney, has arrived without fanfare or big-budget ad campaigns to capture some well-deserved attention. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 21, 2010
It takes a while to get there, but Inhale eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttOct 21, 2010
The final act hits like a gut-punch. Worst fears are confirmed, and the protagonist faces a moral dilemma no father should have to confront. Kormakur and his writers give their protagonist no easy way out. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierOct 22, 2010
The film awkwardly mixes political, social and medical issues and ends up being less than the sum of its parts. Read full review
55
MovielineMichelle OrangeOct 21, 2010
Like the recent and only slightly less fantastical "Never Let Me Go," Inhale manages little more than a gesture toward untying its bundled moral knots. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternOct 21, 2010
You keep rooting for the child to get a new pair of lungs, but all of the beatings, betrayals and bitter ironies leave a bad taste in your head. Read full review
40
VarietyRonnie ScheibOct 21, 2010
Icelandic helmer Baltasar Kormakur ("101 Reykjavik," "Jar City") injects notes of hysteria into the script's frenetic pileup of gratuitous cliches, as Dermot Mulroney pushes his square-jawed, desperate hero to near-masochistic extremes. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenOct 21, 2010
Inhale is a creepy medical thriller in the tradition of "Coma" that amps up the tension and suspense by slicing up time. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickOct 22, 2010
Milks the very real problem of "organ tourism" for all the melodrama and car chases it's worth. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasOct 21, 2010
It's neither remotely convincing as true-to-life drama or lurid and propulsive enough to work as exploitation. It's just bad. Read full review
20
Village VoiceEric HynesOct 21, 2010
Ripped from the headlines and sensationalized for your would-be pleasure, Inhale uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking as the basis for an almost-as-appalling hyperventilated thriller. Read full review
20
Time OutNick SchagerOct 21, 2010
Even with the grungy aesthetics and earnest preaching, Inhale is really nothing but crass topical exploitation, milking this social issue for every salacious drop. Read full review
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