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

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

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

I have to admire a mainstream movie that's so overwhelmingly bleak, but that's the only real distinction of this dystopian sci-fi drama.

| Dec 17, 2008

Handicapped by pretensions to making big statements, Blindness is still gripping, disturbing and intermittently powerful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Sadly, 'Blindness' may realise its director's worst fear: to produce not only an exploitation B-movie but one, paradoxically, spoiled by its own integrity and misplaced 'artistic' mise-en-scène and intentions.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 21, 2008

His actors do their best, and Moore certainly remains a powerhouse presence whenever she's on camera. But mostly they struggle to be seen beneath the leaden messages.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Meirelles, along with screenwriter Don McKellar and cinematographer Cesar Charlone, have created an elegant, gripping and visually outstanding film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2008

There is much to admire about Blindness, but this striking work is all too often undermined by its sense of its own importance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Gripping, disturbing and intermittently powerful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Rhubarbed melodrama.

| Nov 21, 2008

It's prurient, sentimental, and baffling to boot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2008

It's a confused compromise between 'seeing the real person' parable, no-fun sci-fi and self-realisation drama that's basically The Day Of The Triffids minus the killer plants.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

It's a nightmarish vision but also a bit of a mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2008

A sour and unexpected shock.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Stilted, claustrophobic and more stylish than substantial.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

It's the rare movie that dissects the blackness of the soul; rarer still are ones that manage to find the darkness beautiful.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 6, 2008

Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability.

| Original Score: D | Oct 6, 2008

Blindness is a glum, ugly film, and pretentious in the bargain. But, perhaps least excusable, it is a fundamentally ill-conceived film, the visual depiction of a world without sight.

| Oct 3, 2008