But, as a piece of acting and at a thankfully brief ninety-seven minutes it’s like most family gatherings, at times frustrating, at times heartwarming, but you’ll be glad when it’s time to go home

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Blackbird is the equivalent of running a story about euthanasia through an airbrushing app.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Sep 3, 2022

Everyone ends up with some secret to reveal or some family axe to grind. It gets a little ridiculous, almost resembling a dark comedy spoof although one we’ve seen several times before.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Even though Blackbird is about an incredibly difficult thing, the generosity of spirit offered by the performers keeps it enjoyable to watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 11, 2022

The arguments about euthanasia have already been made in this sensitively and adeptly handed drama that focuses on a family and the impact it has on primary relationships

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2021

It never reaches its potential, and despite having assembled a powerhouse cast, their talents are disappointingly underutilized.

| Aug 28, 2021

It's a film that leaves you with plenty of pondering to do for yourself, and hopefully, a stronger sense of gratefulness for the time you've had.

| Original Score: 3.5 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

This remake of the Danish film bravely tackles the right to die with dignity, but its commitment to theatricality lacks true stage power [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Thanks to superb performances from the ensemble cast, smaller moments of connection and catharsis are genuinely touching, and the characters' relationships-with each other and to the family as a unit-come across as beautifully complicate and emotional...

| Apr 23, 2021

Blackbird isn't perfect but it presents an interesting scenario that's worth exploring.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2021

At times, with its single location and erudite dialogue, it feels like a star-studded, well-choreographed stage play, but veteran director Roger Michell ensures it never feels like an airless chamber piece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2021

A surprisingly torpid affair, especially given its high-powered cast...Sarandon, Neill and Winslet put in fine performances but they're wasted in a melodramatic dirge that should have kept at least one eye on the importance of believability.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 2, 2021

Blackbird's cast does always stress its work (no one here is overly subtle here), but they also help breathe feeling into a feature that'd be a far lesser affair without them.

| Mar 1, 2021

The title of the film remains unexplained, but it apparently has nothing to do with the Beatles song or the handful of other films with the same name.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 27, 2021

Neill succeeds with a grace and good humour that do a great deal to calm the histrionics and bring things to a finish lit with a persuasive mingling of sadness and hope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Close encounters of the heavily layered kind come suds-equipped in an actorly family drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2021

A film heavy on melodrama but slight in execution, essentially made watchable by the superb cast assembled by director Roger Michell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2021

To Blackbird's credit, while it languishes in the realm of melodrama, it never accedes to it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2021

In its examination of the end-of-life Blackbird packs an emotional punch, illuminating not only Lily's end but the entirety of a precious life well lived.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

While Blackbird is filled with great performances and some moving moments, it throws in too many contrived plot developments and overly theatrical scenes to hit home like it should.

| Dec 22, 2020