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Dramatic thriller about a straitlaced New Mexico district attorney who is compelled to turn to the black market in Mexico to locate a donor lung for his dying daughter. Cast:Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Sam Shepard, Vincent Perez, Jordi MollàDirector:Baltasar KormákurRelease Date:October 22, 2010DVD Release:January 25, 2011From:IFCLength:1 hr 23 min
Inhale played in New York City and Los Angeles to weak reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Scott Tobias wrote for the AV Club, "...ludicrous... neither remotely convincing as true-to-life drama or lurid and propulsive enough to work as exploitation. It's just bad." • And Kirk Honeycutt wrote in the Hollywood Reporter, "...a well-written, shrewdly produced thriller..." More Reviews Below...
Inhale has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (6 Reviews)
Stephen Holden, New York Times: WEAK "...a shrill, feverish melodrama about illicit organ trafficking... At the same time 'Inhale' is a creepy medical thriller... a muddle of tangled intentions."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 601 words, 10/22/10
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...traffics in 'Babel'-style cultural crises and melodrama. Still, as a tale of parental desperation and the cost of conscience, 'Inhale' comes from a thought-provoking place."(See all of Joe Neumaier's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 136 words, 10/22/10
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "It takes a while to get there, but 'Inhale' eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist.... grim, sometimes overwrought..."(See all of Gary Goldstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 10/22/10
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR(cg) "...milks the very real problem of 'organ tourism' for all the melodrama and car chases it's worth.... has talented actors wasting their time..."(See all of Lou Lumenick's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 174 words, 10/22/10
Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking as the basis for an almost-as-appalling hyperventilated thriller.... gilds an already florid lily with needless gore..."(See all of Eric Hynes's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 243 words, 10/20/10
KEY CITIES (0 Reviews)
Inhale has not been reviewed in Key Cities
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (4 Reviews)
Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking as the basis for an almost-as-appalling hyperventilated thriller.... gilds an already florid lily with needless gore..."(See all of Eric Hynes's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 243 words, 10/20/10
Scott Tobias, AV Club: POOR(cg) "...ludicrous... neither remotely convincing as true-to-life drama or lurid and propulsive enough to work as exploitation. It's just bad.... all credibility is lost."(See all of Scott Tobias's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 368 words, 10/21/10
Paul Brunick, Slant: POOR(cg) "...initially very confusing... the color-processed stock looks distractingly wrong, like someone in the lab forgot to carry a one or left the intern in charge for the day."(See all of Paul Brunick's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 368 words, 10/21/10
HIGHBROW PRESS (3 Reviews)
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...overwrought... suffers from a surfeit of contrivance and a deficit of nuance; there's much too much plot for the topic, which is organ tourism and its perils."(See all of Joe Morgenstern's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 197 words, 10/22/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: WEAK "...a shrill, feverish melodrama about illicit organ trafficking... At the same time 'Inhale' is a creepy medical thriller... a muddle of tangled intentions."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 601 words, 10/22/10
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "It takes a while to get there, but 'Inhale' eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist.... grim, sometimes overwrought..."(See all of Gary Goldstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 10/22/10
MOVIE INDUSTRY (5 Reviews)
Ronnie Scheib, Daily Variety: WEAK "Icelandic helmer Baltasar Kormakur ('101 Reykjavik,' 'Jar City') injects notes of hysteria into the script's frenetic pileup of gratuitous cliches..."(See all of Ronnie Scheib's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 554 words, 09/29/10
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...a well-written, shrewdly produced thriller... Kormakur and his writers more than make their case about the illegal sales of human organs within the genre confines..."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 637 words, 10/19/10
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "It takes a while to get there, but 'Inhale' eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist.... grim, sometimes overwrought..."(See all of Gary Goldstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 10/22/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: WEAK "...a shrill, feverish melodrama about illicit organ trafficking... At the same time 'Inhale' is a creepy medical thriller... a muddle of tangled intentions."(See all of Stephen Holden's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 601 words, 10/22/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...overwrought... suffers from a surfeit of contrivance and a deficit of nuance; there's much too much plot for the topic, which is organ tourism and its perils."(See all of Joe Morgenstern's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 197 words, 10/22/10
22.2 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Inhale's reviews are separated by an average 22.2 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Inhale (11 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Inhale's reviews cover 15.6% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 3,750 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 341 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 23.6 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Inhale's reviews on average broke 23.6 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Inhale's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
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