Mouth to Mouth
Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    70
    A rough but boldly imaginative first feature by British-Canadian writer-director Alison Murray.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    The upbeat ending can't erase the lingering aura of being trapped in an insane asylum with the Manson family.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    30
    A grim little drama about a young woman's experiences with a left-wing cult, Alison Murray's debut feature suffers from disjointed storytelling and myriad other problems, including a bizarre reliance on modern dance sequences to interrupt the action.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    63
    Canadian-born choreographer Alison Murray draws on her own experiences as a 15-year-old runaway living in squats and on the streets, in her feature-filmmaking debut, which is a clear-eyed look at the pleasures and price of abandoning conventional mores for experimental lifestyles.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Filmmaker Alison Murray drew on her own experiences, but Mouth to Mouth would have benefited from more focus and fewer dance sequences.
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    67
    Writer-director Alison Murray picks at a hard, true hurt in this zombie melodrama of defloration, but nothing beyond that hurt really comes into focus.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    50
    Murray's story has the no-holds-barred look and feel of a '70s movie, but her digressions into modern dance are a tad unwelcome.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    Emerges an uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.
  10. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    40
    As the film progresses, however, Murray becomes less and less sure of where things are heading or what it is she is trying to get at, such that the last few reels feel perfunctory and unengaged.

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User Score
8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Yohanthebetterone
    10
    Genius idea for a movie. Proud of ellen page for taking this role and making gold. Everything's great.
  2. Melissarod
    10
    Just really good. Didn't expect to love thus movie but it really surprised me. Peppers are stupid though.
  3. tikeJonah
    10
    My god this is great. Great is a word not even worthy of gracing this movie. Its absolutely superb.
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