71
Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- I Am Breathing is not a documentary intended to induce sobbing. It is, instead, a film about dying that is stunningly alive, wildly optimistic, and always insightful and entertaining.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe last couple of years in one tragically truncated life are chronicled with a winning combination of sensitivity and humor in I Am Breathing.
- 88RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comAn earnest and important film. It deserves to be seen by anyone who is interested in documentaries and anyone who is interested in the simple human stories movies too often overlook.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonA deeply affecting glimpse of a man's quest to salvage beauty from tragedy.
- 70The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldMr. Platt’s good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism.
- 70Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonLos Angeles TimesAnnlee Ellingson"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself.
- 70VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellNot so much harrowing as achingly reflective.
- The directors' intimate domestic images only occasionally match the humour and ruminative poetry of their subject's own, blog-published words, but ghoulishness and undue sentimentality are kept at bay.
- 40Time OutTime OutEmma Davie and Morag McKinnon’s doc walks the line between a deathwatch film and an uplifting one, rather than simply rubbing the viewer’s nose in the horror of mortality.