There's an enquiring restlessness to Doremus' camera, always searching for small gestures and glances which, along with Dustin O'Halloran's beautifully forlorn score and DoP John Guleserian washed-out palates, creates a sensuous, longing atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2019

Unfortunately, even a great cast and solid cinematography couldn't combat against a weak script.

| Dec 16, 2018

A beautifully realised piece of cinema, and Doremus seems to understand that storytelling on film needn't just be about dramaturgy, but also more tactile and ephemeral things.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2018

A sombre, low-key, male mid-life crisis drama, full of meaningful glances, unspoken resentment and underlying regret.

| Sep 5, 2017

Breathe In is at times melancholic and at others, too precious, which makes for a shaky film with some very good scenes.

| Aug 15, 2017

Midlife crises, affairs, teen drinking, sex in indie drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2014

A soft, pretty score and noteworthy camera work -- often close on the actors' hands or faces -- help keep this low-key film engrossing.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 18, 2014

[Doremus] telegraphs the film's intentions early and builds at a ponderous, self-important pace toward a trite, unsatisfying finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2014

Jones, outstanding as the other woman in Fiennes's "The Invisible Woman," seems adrift here and Ryan's Megan projects no desires past maintaining the status quo.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 21, 2014

The screen sparkles with the sexual tension between Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones...

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 20, 2014

A film about a May-December romance, it would be laborious to sit through any time of year.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 18, 2014

There's something flimsy and unformed at these characters' cores, something that no amount of jumpy close-ups, skittering sideways glances, and rainy music can make up for.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 18, 2014

Fine performances barely make up for this melodrama's narrative bankruptcy.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 17, 2014

It takes all of 10 minutes for Doremus' film to reveal itself to us: this is a movie about a conflicted father who has arrived at a crossroads, both morally and artistically.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 5, 2014

Buoyed by some nicely nuanced performances (especially by Pearce and Amy Ryan as his dream-dashing wife), Breathe In never quite rises above its predictable potboiler premise.

| Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2014

It does everything it should, except take your breath away.

| Apr 4, 2014

Every moment between stars Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones feels so much like an explosion about to go off that viewers may hesitate to so much as take a breath at the wrong time for fear of disturbing the film's delicate equilibrium.

| Apr 3, 2014

A breathy tale of a not-quite love affair, Drake Doremus' "Breathe In" is yet another skillfully acted indie drama that's never quite good enough to be memorable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 3, 2014

The superb acting can't turn narrative lead into gold with this story about the attraction of a foreign-exchange student pianist to her married host and teacher.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2014

The film needs more help than it gets from the script, which turns on facile coincidence and dwindles in originality as it moves toward its climax.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2014