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  Review by former movie enjoyer ★★★½ 1

  movie: stars a hot dad
  me: IM READY! frigging large popcorn! Hot dog! Damn slurpy dammit! Don't talk to me when I sit down to watch this! Don't touch me ! Don't breathe in my direction ! This is it!

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  Review by Caitlin ★★★★

  Guy Pearce is aptly named because wow he really is... A Guy......... A Man ......

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  Review by olivia ★★★★

  breathe in is so beautiful, soft, somber and tragic, and really hard to speak on, due to the fact that it just ripped my heart out and stomped on it. i can't really formulate many thoughts due to the way drake doremus continues to hurt me. is he okay? like, does he need a hug? just wondering.

  (drake doremus - ranked)

  (top favorite first watches of 2021)

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  Review by russman ★★★

  This would make for a strange double feature with Don't Breathe

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  Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★½ 2

  “My uncle used to say, don't let fear become your profession.”

  Drake Doremus’s follow up to his 2011 acclaimed film, Like Crazy, is thematically similar in tone and style as the premise focuses on the complexities of relationships once again. I was a huge fan of Like Crazy and admired how the characters were given such depth while avoiding the typical romantic cliches. This time around I felt like the familiar premise began with some promise, but ultimately unraveled at the end. The plot centers on a foreign exchange student who arrives at a small New York town hosted by a married couple and their teenage daughter. We’ve seen this premise played out many times in films as the new…

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  Review by Bethany ★★★★½

  ok wow. i am so incredibly in love with drake doremus' directing and writing. this film is heart wrenching but so beautiful and gives you so much in such a short space of time.

  also, guy pearce in those glasses can officially get it.

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  Review by Thomas Ringdal ★★★½ 2

  On paper this is a story about the midlife crisis of a married man, stuck in a job he never wanted and a wife that's rather condecending towards his aspirations. Add Felicity Jones into the mix, and any man would crumble. But it is never her fault, directly. Sure, she's the faucet, if you will, the presence that presents him with motive, means and opportunity, but she never acts upon moments, more than reacts. Doremus has too much love for Jones to make her into the bad guy of any story, of course. And I myself of course love her to death. It's pretty silly, and not at all healthy, and as a result I am doomed to be forever…

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  Review by Jim ★★★½ 5

  Further proof, as if it was needed, that Felicity Jones is the real deal.

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  Review by regina ★★★★½

  is this my new comfort movie

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  Review by Vince The Cinephile ★★½

  Well this is quite an underwhelming feature from Drake Doremus. His feature Breathe In once again stars Felicity Jones (who worked with him in Like Crazy) as the foreign exchange student who develops an illicit attraction to her host’s husband thus changing the course of domestic relations in the house. Yet what makes it problematic is its uninspired, thin, melodramatic narrative. Although I really appreciate how Doremus opted for restraint in those ‘infatuation’ scenes—just clear but intense glances, and caresses.

  What makes this film totally work is sensitive performances from its gifted cast. Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce make good chemistry together and they gave pretty solid performances despite having an uninspired script to do. Amy Ryan is also noteworthy…

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  Review by bree1981 ★★½

  This is the age old story about a once happily married couple growing apart, Guy Pierce plays a man who seems to be drifting apart from his wife, while she has grown and matured over the years he still harbours dreams of giving up his teaching job for a career in music. The family take in British exchange student Sophie played by Felicity Jones and slowly but surely she comes between them all. Although this is a very well acted movie, the two leads along with Amy Ryan and Mackenzie Davis are all terrific and everything looks beautiful it all seemed very melodramatic and it struggled to hold my attention. This may be the kind of film i will have to re-watch before i get anything from it.

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  Review by -ˋˏ 𝐀𝐧𝐚 ˎˊ- ★★★½

  i would also fall in love with Felicity Jones