From a certain point of view, particularly that of the artist, Blindness is an achievement worth appreciating in all its horrible glory. There are, however, limitations to how much artistic abuse a viewer should have to suffer from commercial cinema.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 30, 2024

The handling of the story and view of the humanity of the characters is challenging, but a tad disengaged to make the film's social commentary truly effective.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

As we face the possibility of apocalyptic economic collapse and/or ecological catastrophe, this allegorical horror thriller joins Alfonso Cuarón's grim Children of Men as a terrifying vision of the anarchic future that may lie in store for us.

| Nov 21, 2020

Meirelles only sporadically creates moments of greatness that are too often surrounded by pretentious mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 3, 2020

The film manages to communicate the sense of deep-rooted paranoia and anxiety to its audience, the moments of claustrophobia on screen reach out and smother viewers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2019

Blindness stumbles because it's a fundamental mismatch: A visceral director better known for searing portraits of real-life injustices shouldn't really make a parable.

| Oct 17, 2018

Were they so overwhelmed by the big ideas in their script that they became blind to its faults? It's difficult to draw any other conclusion.

| Aug 9, 2018

Blindness is a compelling and faithful adaptation of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramango.

| Dec 16, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Give this one a go guys, you'll see the world anew.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 24, 2011

The picture is elongated to a punishing two hours of suffering, infuriatingly slavish screenwriting, and a director who should be gifted the miracle of a tripod this upcoming holiday season.

| Original Score: D | Jun 2, 2010

Like the film's thematic elements, the camera trickery comes off as unnecessarily pretentious, the sort of thing film students applaud while mainstream audiences yawn.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 30, 2009

It's hard to explain all the vitriol aimed at Meirelles' film, which is a beautifully shot picture that is as haunting and profound as it is thought-provoking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Takes the post-apocalyptic themes of Children of Men and blends it with the jaded morality of Lord of the Flies to questionable success

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2009

Blindness is a film that is trying to come off as organic and artsy, but feels too contrived.

| Original Score: C | Jul 3, 2009

No matter how you look at this film, it is a chilling look at what makes us tick at our very basic nature.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 18, 2009

Glover's occasional all-knowing commentary and the dreary music score dull the edges of what was bound to be a challenging project.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2009

The film is far from dull or careless but it's not convincing as a lesson in human frailty. If you're going to subject us to this much degradation, it has to be irresistibly believable, not just relentless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2009

As a study of human nature under pressure, focusing on the crimes we commit as well as the bonds of solidarity we forge, it's unremittingly dour.

| Mar 20, 2009

Blindness is not unmissable, and has awkwardly implausible moments, but it succeeds in sucking us into its peculiar world.

| Mar 20, 2009