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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The figures in Blindness have no names; that's how deep into the Valley of Allegory we are. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: I have to admire a mainstream movie that's so overwhelmingly bleak, but that's the only real distinction of this dystopian sci-fi drama. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is film as punishment; a literate and thoughtful work that's nonetheless so relentless in its bleached-out misery that you want to look away. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: There's a good movie here, but we get it in pieces that are sometimes hard to decipher. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: In his effort to make a grand statement, Meirelles piles on the drama, as well as the affectations. The resulting effect dilutes the film's power. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of Jose Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Stilted, claustrophobic and more stylish than substantial. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Fernando Meirelles' awkward, repulsive yet richly imagined film uses sightlessness as a trigger for the breakdown of society. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Blindness leaves indelible images and unnerving feelings about physical and social disintegration. It is not easy to stomach. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Doesn't show us anything we haven't seen before. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like pizzazz. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: It's the rare movie that dissects the blackness of the soul; rarer still are ones that manage to find the darkness beautiful. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: For all its pretension and artiness, Blindness is more like M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening (which at least had the decency to be fast-paced and short), right down to its upbeat and inane conclusion. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Blindness is a face-first dive into the horror of human nature -- call it Lord of the Blind Flies -- with several memorably harrowing scenes and a compelling cast. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Blindness feels at once honorably serious and way too pleased with its own soothsaying. You stagger from the dimness of the cinema, beaten down and longing for the light. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Dully written, ponderously paced and full of one-note characters acting exactly as we'd expect. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: The descent into barbarism — hallways fouled by human waste, cruelty 'round every corner — is both the device and the point ... Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: I kept hoping the meaning would click into place, but it never quite did. The story seems designed to apply to whatever fear is nibbling around your subconscious. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The extremes are so barbaric few audiences will sit through them, and despite the allegorical intentions, the apocalyptic literary views in the Jose Saramago novel upon which it is based fail to translate coherently to the screen. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Fascinating as sci-fi, paltry as a parable, Blindness is one of the movie year's most daring failures. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Murky and grainy, and showing human beings at their grimmest -- thievery, rape, betrayal, murder -- Blindness is no barrel of laughs. But it is a barrel of pretentious metaphorical musings. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: An absorbing (if admittedly flawed) thought-piece. It engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is an allegory about a group of people who survive under great stress, but frankly I would rather have seen them perish than sit through the final three-quarters of the film. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Too many scenes strike the same note, and, at times, Blindness seems like a premise in search of a story, and an allegory in search of a meaning. But in its methodical and uncompromising way, it gets where it needs to go. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Blindness is an apocalypse movie for sophisticates; it'll work for you if you're more comfortable name-checking Camus' The Plague than 28 Days Later. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: If you've read Lord of the Flies or Animal Farm, you'll know how things progress. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: This film rests uneasily between art and thriller, putting a huge burden on the actors, especially Julianne Moore, to convey the larger meaning of the story. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: Sadly, 'Blindness' may realise its director's worst fear: to produce not only an exploitation B-movie but one, paradoxically, spoiled by its own integrity and misplaced 'artistic' mise-en-scene and intentions. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: Blindness is a glum, ugly film, and pretentious in the bargain. But, perhaps least excusable, it is a fundamentally ill-conceived film, the visual depiction of a world without sight. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The film is an often thought-provoking metaphor. But as a thriller, it becomes dreary. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: The personal and mass chaos that would result if the human race lost its sense of vision is conveyed with diminished impact and an excess of stylish tics in Blindness. Read more
Neely Tucker, Washington Post: It's a beautiful car that never quite cranks up. The book is deep allegory, lost in time and place, describing a suffocating little world. It's hard to get at that in cinematic form. Read more