A Mouthful of Air

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

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.

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

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.

"A Mouthful of Air" aspires to show how depression can sully even the loveliest of scenes. The scenes the movie chooses, however, play like a parody of white privilege...

Seyfried's performance is a revelation.

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

A grim tale that brought me no enlightenment or joy.

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

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