While the film earned Bullock an Oscar, it's a win that comes with a lot of complex and mixed emotions, as her character is a big reason why this film has so many problematic aspects.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 27, 2025

Hancock’s movie feels like an overly schmaltzy Disney production. All the realism of the story has been replaced by heavy sentimentality and scenes that play to audience expectations.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2023

There's too much emotional manipulation and huge problems seem to get solved a little too easily for it to be 100 percent believable, but it is an entertaining movie anchored by two very good, but very different actors.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The plot of uncommon human kindness and charity is a formula for box office success and reasonable entertainment, but the execution is incredibly conventional.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The Blind Side is that rare formulaic flick that actually works.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 3, 2020

Issues of race and racism are not left on the side, though, and the onscreen chemistry that [Sandra] Bullock and [Quinton] Aaron score is a game winner from the get-go.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2020

It felt tired and clichéd and the frequent and obvious emotional button-pushing failed to ignite any real response from me.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 11, 2019

This is a horrid film, and I hated it, and while, I suppose, you can't argue with a true story, you can always argue with the way it is told.

| Aug 30, 2018

... I must say that I doubt I'd like the film as much had it not been Christmas and just a plain ole good family flick to see with my mom.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

[It] is all about the family's altruism and turns a blind eye to silent Michael, with father Sean offering up the excuse: "Michael's gift is his ability to forget." I'm not convinced but that didn't stop me from enjoying the film and admiring Bullock.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2017

The movie is done with crispness, vigor, down-home humor, and an over-all tang of good feeling, but the pushing of buttons is the work of extraordinary calculation.

| Jan 24, 2014

The movie is very familiar -- you've seen it all before -- but it succeeds at achieving its modest goals.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2014

As a fable about the power of giving, it hits pretty hard.

| Jan 24, 2014

It's certainly a heartwarming tale and Bullock delivers a big, ballsy performance as the indomitable Tuohy - but Oscar-worthy? What were they thinking?

| Aug 2, 2012

Serves its purpose by making the audience tear up in some moments and cheer in others. It's a total button-pusher, but it does so in a very good way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2012

Football may the thread that runs throughout, but the movie is much more interested in the tale of how Oher left behind a life of poverty, violence and foster-home despair to become a champ on the gridiron.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2011

A living tribute to fundamental Christian motivations, although the point is hammered home with an extraordinarily soft touch: Love thy neighbor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 5, 2011

You're going to be crying by the end.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

The Blind Side, which has reportedly made close to 200 million dollars, is based on a true story (the operative word is "based," of course).

| Feb 23, 2011

Sing it together with me my brothers, thank the Lawd for he created the white man that he might teach them po' negroes the value of good Christian chariddy.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 3, 2011