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Blindness Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 58

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like pizzazz.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  Not a great film, mainly because it can't transcend -- and, indeed, lays bare -- the intellectual flimsiness of its source. But it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like. For all its chin-rubbing, brow-furrowing attitudes, it does not, in the end, give you much to think about. But there is, nonetheless, a lot here to see.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  Meirelles' slickly crafted drama rarely achieves the visceral force, tragic scope and human resonance of Saramago's prose.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  A brilliant idea that seems to lack the vision to be great.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  Blindness is provocative cinema. But it also is predictable cinema: It startles but does not surprise.

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• 38

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

  What was presumably intended to play like a fable plays, instead, like an overly long car commercial crossed with a scare-mongering public service announcement.

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