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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 78Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesIt's a rattling, heartrending performance (Moore) in, yes, a long, hard slough of a film – one that is well worth the journey, if not a repeat trip.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful.
- 60NPRBob MondelloNPRBob MondelloMoore is always watchable, Ruffalo and Bernal get a nice rivalry going without ever establishing eye contact (as it were), and Danny Glover has some nice moments in an underdeveloped part as an older man who finds, to his benefit, that love is blind.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAs 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.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttBlindness is provocative cinema. But it also is predictable cinema: It startles but does not surprise.
- 50VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangMeirelles' slickly crafted drama rarely achieves the visceral force, tragic scope and human resonance of Saramago's prose.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThis film is very different: chilly, methodical, a slave to 10-ton metaphor as opposed to metaphoric provocation.
- 40The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThe trouble with Blindness is that it’s so preoccupied with shouldering this symbolic weight that it gradually forgets to tell a story--to keep faith with the directives of common sense.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceUnflinching 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.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBlindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen.