Breathe

With “Breathe,” Andy Serkis asks how much fun a polio movie can be.

Breathe is a tame, weepy whiff of drab period drama.

Andy Serkis directs Garfield, Claire Foy in flawed but moving take on true story of Robin Cavendish, who defied odds, physical handicap for decades.

Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) is newly married to Diana (Claire Foy) and working in Africa in 1958 when he contracts polio. Left paralysed, he and his wife fight to build a ...

Breathe is the Theory Of Everything that 2017 never asked for.

“Breathe,” Andy Serkis’ directorial debut, is an undeniably well-intentioned film. Serkis directs this true story of the parents of one of his best friends and producing partner...

The story by screenwriter William Nicholson (“Everest”) jumps from one major episode in Robin’s life to another, but with none of those episodes delving into his interior life, ...

Breathe is an easily digestible replica of the truth, bathed in honeyed cinematography and sentimentalized adulation.

Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield can’t save airless ‘Breathe’

Andrew Garfield battles polio with a stout heart and a stiff upper lip in Andy Serkis's uncharacteristically conservative directorial debut.

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy play a real-life couple who overcome huge challenges in the debut feature from actor-turned-director Andy Serkis.

Offering no hint of the backbreaking drudgery and mental strain of their predicament, this gauzy picture (produced by the couple’s son, Jonathan Cavendish, and directed by his f...

It’s important to note that Breathe was produced by the Cavendishes’ son Jonathan, who co-owns a production company with Serkis. I suppose not everyone sees their parents for th...