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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyA fascinating character study.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenAsthma inevitably becomes another film about a man airing out his traumas and hitting all the requisite marks on his path to healing.
- 42The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangThe problems run far deeper than craft — it is simply a film that has no reason to be made, a story without point or insight or drive.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe soundtrack is fantastic and Samuel eminently watchable, but "Asthma" suffers from near-lethal doses of self-satisfied hipness.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonLack of originality and self-awareness prove to be a fatal combination. There is something way too familiar about Hoffman's rites-of-passage portrait of wasted youth, with its inevitable soundtrack of fashionable angst-rock and predictably retro-cool cult-movie influences.