Inhale 2010

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Filmed in a semi-documentary style, it fitfully aspires to moral seriousness. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: Illegal organ trafficking is undeniably serious; this tawdry message movie about the subject, however, most unequivocally isn't. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: All of the beatings, betrayals and bitter ironies leave a bad taste in your head. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's neither remotely convincing as true-to-life drama or lurid and propulsive enough to work as exploitation. It's just bad. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: The final act hits like a gut-punch. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: It takes a while to get there, but Inhale eventually emerges as a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The film soon 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. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Milks the very real problem of "organ tourism" for all the melodrama and car chases it's worth. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: You will go away with your heart full and your eyes wide open. Read more

Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Walter Doty III and John Clafin's hackneyed script depicts Mexico as one vast, interconnected conspiracy engaged in the underground organ trade, whose highest-ranked traffickers are -- gasp! -- Americans. Read more

Eric Hynes, Village Voice: Ripped from the headlines and sensationalized for your would-be pleasure, Inhale uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ trafficking as the basis for an almost-as-appalling hyperventilated thriller. Read more