A responsible yet troubling cautionary tale about the insidious nature of depression...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2022

The film needed less sensitive good taste and more explicit storytelling passion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2022

A grim tale that brought me no enlightenment or joy.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 9, 2022

Film has issues. But Seyfried is compelling, sympathetic and powerful in lead role.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 6, 2022

The story potently points out how alone women suffering from post-partum depression can be, even when surrounded by others.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2022

"A Mouthful of Air delivers a heartbreaking story that, one hopes, might show someone else she's not alone."

| Nov 15, 2021

Despite some honest intentions, this downbeat drama about postpartum depression lacks the conviction to achieve its cathartic goals.

| Nov 12, 2021

Freshman screenwriter-director Amy Koppelman ably captures that uniquely terrifying situation when the most dangerous nemesis you can encounter is the one living in your own skin.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Nov 5, 2021

An exploration of the desperate sadness felt by an overwhelmed new mother makes for insightful drama, but this isn't a happy film. That said, it does provide some answers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2021

A Mouthful of Air isn't dramatic. It's not melodramatic. It's real.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2021

For a film so grounded in a real-life issue, the movie doesn't work to make its characters feel human or its world feel real, blunting the emotional impact it could have had.

| Nov 2, 2021

One gets the sense by the conclusion that a film version of the story can only skim the surface of the emotional depths that Koppelman expressed and explored in pages of printed prose.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 1, 2021

Amanda Seyfried gives a nuanced performance, but A Mouthful of Air fails to go beyond the surface to engage with its themes in a meaningful way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2021

Amanda Seyfried's heartbreaking and complex performance is the main reason to see the depressing drama A Mouthful of Air, which at times gets a little too trite in this story about a young mother who's struggling with suicidal thoughts.

| Oct 31, 2021

Amanda Seyfried is heartbreaking in A Mouthful of Air, a harrowing story about postpartum depression...

| Oct 30, 2021

Although the movie has a tough ending, it seldom digs as deeply as its subject demands. Animated examples of Julia's work don't help either.

| Oct 29, 2021

[Amanda] Seyfried gives a great performance, and when the film does depict her moments of mental and parental exhaustion, she is wholly convincing. She shines in a film that is too often frustratingly opaque.

| Oct 29, 2021

It's an affecting portrait of mental health issues, pulling no punches -- though again, not an easy film to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2021

A third-act plot complication ... gives an overly simplified explanation for Julie's mental state that feels forced and inadequate to the important issues about postpartum life that Koppelman wants to impart.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Oct 29, 2021

The film is too haunted by helplessness to risk feeling didactic, but this is unambiguously a message movie, and the message is that you can't argue with brain chemistry.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 28, 2021