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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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Emerges an uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
70
A rough but boldly imaginative first feature by British-Canadian writer-director Alison Murray.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
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.
50
Filmmaker Alison Murray drew on her own experiences, but Mouth to Mouth would have benefited from more focus and fewer dance sequences.
63
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
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.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Scott Brown
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.
30
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The upbeat ending can't erase the lingering aura of being trapped in an insane asylum with the Manson family.