memorable portrait of some truly courageous individuals and previously unrevealed insights to Tibetan culture

| Original Score: B | Apr 25, 2009

An important, heart-soaring record of a group of incredibly brave people doing something almost everyone would tell them is impossible.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Yes, it's literally the blind leading the blind in this ironically eye-opening doc that from the outset sounds like an un-PC South Park episode but is in fact inspirational.

| Aug 8, 2008

You wouldn't believe it as fiction but it really is fairly unadorned fact. It is easy to see awards beckoning, and deservedly so because Walker as a film-maker never puts herself in front of her extraordinary subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2008

How they managed the trek defies belief, but in an art-form where superpowers have become passé, it's a stirring reminder of what human powers, against the odds, can achieve.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Lucy Walker's documentary Blindsight is breathtaking twice over. It leaves the audience gasping like a landed guppy at views of snow-coddled Himalayan peaks under ice-blue skies.

| Aug 8, 2008

The ascent reveals a fascinating clash of values between the more gung-ho Americans (who are determined to reach the top) and the youngsters' remarkable teacher Sabriye Tenberken.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Lucy Walker's inspirational, award-winning documentary, which leaves condescension and treacle out in the cold, emerging as one of the year's most illuminating, heartbreaking, and life-affirming movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Lucy Walker's documentary is genuinely stirring.

| Aug 8, 2008

Walker's ending is fudged both in terms of the narrative and the issues, and she seems to come down, a little feebly, on the "heartwarming" side of things. But what an amazing, and bizarre, story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2008

A strikingly photographed documentary that unfolds into a story of human achievement and a study of the East-West culture clash.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2008

An accomplished work from documentarian Walker, who uses her battle-against-the odds story to illuminate how Tibetan society mistreats its blind citizens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Blindsight is a great example of the emotional dividends that careful photography, sensitive editing and an atmospheric score can deliver.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Aug 8, 2008

Uplifting but never mawkish, and gorgeously shot.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2008

An amazing no-frills inspirational documentary shot with deep feeling and conviction by Lucy Walker.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2008

To see how these conflicts play out, to see how both sides came to realize that they had unexpected things to learn from these remarkable young people, is where Blindsight really makes its mark.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 30, 2008

Coying and manipulative.

| May 30, 2008

A blind man climbs to the top of Mount Everest in Blindsight, and that's just the beginning of the drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2008

Walker's film is a sure tearjerker, but the sentiments aren't cheap.

| Apr 18, 2008

It is a truly one-of-a-kind story of survival, persistence and achievement, and by the time it was over I was moved so thoroughly beyond words I almost didn't know what to do next.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2008