It engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
A perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa 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.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Neely Tucker
An arresting, often riveting film that is fascinating to look at but not nearly so interesting to watch.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
A brilliant idea that seems to lack the vision to be great.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.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.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Murky and grainy, and showing human beings at their grimmest - thievery, rape, betrayal, murder - Blindness is no barrel of laughs. But it IS a barrel of pretentious metaphorical musings.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
An extended metaphor for the condition of man, and boy is it extended. In the course of two hours that crawl by like four and a half.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Anthony Kaufman
Unflinching at best and treacly at worst, the film unveils its apocalyptic scenario with visceral intensity, but lacks the emotional sophistication to rise above schadenfreude kicks.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen.Read Full Review »
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