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

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

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

| Jan 24, 2014

Generally enjoyable, but it isn't until the credits roll that you'll realize what a major sentimental impact it has on you.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2010

A Photoshopped image of reality that is bland, parochial, and stereotypically acted by a cast who have nothing like the subtlety and range of Trey Parker's puppets from Team America: World Police.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2010

Bullock turns in a terrific, ball-breaking performance. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is painfully patronising.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2010

Shows that America, for all its loudhailed Christianity, doesn't really need God at all. It just needs Sandra Bullock and her like.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2010

A few momentary hiccups aside, the film plays out in sickly-sweet fashion, relentlessly shoving the Touhy's self-righteous values down the audiences' throat and never bothering to consider the wider social ramifications...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 25, 2010

It's a celluloid version of Paul McCartney and Stevie's Wonder's Ebony and Ivory, one in which pious, infantilizing didacticism masquerades as humanitarianism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2010

You will be moved, but at the price of any nuance or complexity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2010

Quite how Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for her one-note turn as bleached supermum Leigh-Anne is a mystery, since it transforms a potentially worthwhile character study into a grandstanding star vehicle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2010

The movie's obsessed with the Tuohy clan's constant kindness towards Mike, and the social knock-on effects for them. But it barely gives a second thought to the poor sod's own struggle with suddenly finding himself a charity case.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2010

It's so clichd and so patronising and there's more than a whiff of racism.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 24, 2010

The Blind Side is a big budget, well crafted and finely honed... movie of the week.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2010

Writer-director John Lee Hancock wants to say something meaningful about racism, but he can't even get the football parts of his film right.

| Dec 30, 2009

Its superficiality keeps it from being the moving story it could have been.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2009

However obvious, The Blind Side is touching -- despite its habit of dropping major character notes into the melody without warning.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2009

Oher(TM)s life is meant to make us feel good, and it mostly does. But how good we feel about his story is proportional to how blind we(TM)re willing to be about how it(TM)s told.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2009

It's a feel-good movie that could have been a more intellectual, honest exercise, but it's still a feel-good movie that works on its own terms.

| Nov 23, 2009