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

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

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

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

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

You take them with you as you leave the theater, knowing that your bad day probably isn't as rough as you first thought and inspiring the realization that anyone can climb the peaks of their own lives. It's a must-see.

| Apr 11, 2008

Walker captures all the dreamy-scary beauty of Everest's upper reaches, as well as numerous mini-dramas about the kids' readiness to approach the summit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2008

The film is often breathtakingly beautiful, and even as the students triumph over the naysayers, it's melancholy knowing they aren't sharing viewers' experiences of their starkly gorgeous world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2008

Simultaneously a sports adventure film, a tear-jerking tale of hope and inspiration and a captivating meditation on culture clash.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2008

Blindsight is hugely affecting, the rare experience that will make those who watch it thankful for what they have, yet make them realize that they aren't nearly thankful enough.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 20, 2008

The film overcomes its crude production values and awkward structuring. It stirs you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2008

Blindsight makes us consider an apparent paradox that, for the blind, is the philosophical starting point of their day: how to see things the human eye won't register.

| Mar 13, 2008

Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 6, 2008

There are enough good stories for three movies in Lucy Walker's Blindsight, an exhilarating trip with six blind Tibetan teenagers as they scale one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 6, 2008