Blindness (2008) Critic Reviews

At times almost unbearably ugly, but by the time you walk out of the theater, you know you've seen something.Read the full review

A perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory.Read the full review

It engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful.Read the full review

There's a good movie here, but we get it in pieces that are sometimes hard to decipher.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

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

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

An arresting, often riveting film that is fascinating to look at but not nearly so interesting to watch.Read the full review