Dazzles with brilliant underwater photography.

| Original Score: B | Apr 17, 2023

It is a universal all-ages call to environmental activism, because the passion of just one girl does make a difference.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2023

This slight but engaging eco-family film needs to impress upon you that the marine ecosystem is dying from climate change and destructive commerce.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2023

A lovely, sweet family film.

| Mar 15, 2023

The sincere but stilted script limits this Australian environmental drama about a mother, a daughter, and a fish.

| Original Score: C | Mar 9, 2023

Well intentioned, looks nice, and is decently performed, but it’s also flat, lethargic, and exhausting when it should be eye opening, educational, magical, and transformative.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 9, 2023

Blueback is a well-intentioned but heavy-handed film that mixes-and-matches mother and daughter dynamics with messages about the fragility of marine environments and the importance of conservationism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2023

Blueback doesn't try to give too much information, but keeping the educational content generalized actually works a bit against it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2023

The failing of Blueback is that it lacks the courage of its convictions.

| Mar 7, 2023

These visuals make the abundant preaching throughout Blueback palatable but make you long for a tighter focus and a subtler approach.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 6, 2023

The underwater cinematography along Australian’s coastal reefs is breathtaking, although the wholesome and heartfelt script merely skims the surface.

| Mar 4, 2023

There are lovely scenes of the Australian marine world but the script is a hop, skip and jump through time.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 4, 2023

Blueback‘s message makes it impossible to ignore. If we can save our local wildlife, we can save wildlife on a broader level.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 3, 2023

You can feel barnacles on the dialogue, like when a corporate bully (Erik Thomson) growls, “You and your mom really think you can stop this, don’t you?”

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 3, 2023

Manages to be pensive and breezy at once, a reflection on the way those who raise us sometimes impart their most noble values to us even as they’re driving us crazy—and their little ways of annoying us are often the things we miss most when they’re gone.

| Mar 3, 2023

“Blueback” is beautiful to look at and touchingly sincere about the urgency of protecting the oceans, but it is also thinly scripted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2023

Robert Connolly successfully delivers a story which has enough nuance to keep adults from getting bored whilst remaining accessible to younger viewers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2023

A transporting mother-daughter (and fish) drama as well as a beautifully shot memory piece that will reward patient viewers able to settle in and enjoy the film’s accessibly low-key vibe.

| Mar 3, 2023

A tender-hearted environmental drama about a girl who falls in love with the ocean and a mysterious giant fish while navigating a contentious relationship with her mother.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 2, 2023

Blueback simply doesn't tell enough of a story for us to really care about a lesson as predictable and self-evident as the one being presented here.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 2, 2023