Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga
A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband a...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
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Flixster Reviews (3,544)
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October 7, 2009''The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.''
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined...
Yusuke Iseya: First Blind Man
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August 22, 2009I really hope civilization wouldn't fall apart if we all went temporarily blind - I mean give blind people some credit, movie.
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July 26, 2009For a dystopian "end of society" flick, there are far better entries. The movie quickly isolates itself to a small quarantine area (probably for budget reasons) of those afflicted with the "blindness". Within the quarantine, the social order quickly breaks down when it becomes ov...( read more)
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July 22, 2009Julianne Moore stars as the only woman who can see, when everyone else in the city, including her husband are struck with a sudden blindness epidemic and are forced into quarantine.
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July 19, 2009For a film listed with a playing time of 1 hr. 58 min., Blindness seemed to play on endlessly. This film was supposedly a parable and the parable was lost in the acting and bad direction. Not even Moore, Glover and Ruffalo could save this film from itself. Overuse of a white m...( read more)
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November 19, 2009A truly bleak, unrelenting movie that never lets up, but that's the problem. After a brilliant first five minutes or so, with a guy going blind while driving, things dovetail into opressive, nilhistic territory, which is the purpose, but it does so with no point or soul. I comple...( read more)
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November 18, 2009This movie starts off really slow but eventually gets interesting. There are some tense scenes and the story has some interesting moments. The cast is good with an unique mix of characters. I just slightly recommend this film.
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November 17, 2009A great performance by Ms. Moore heads a cast that all perform brilliantly. Maury Chaykin was so good (as he usually is) that I regretted that his part wasn't more central to the story. On a superficial level the story is horribly pessimistic about human nature -- sort of a Lord ...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
November 21, 2008
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
October 18, 2008
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com
Blindness finds its way out of the darkness and into a muddled plotline that does the bestselling book it's based on no favors. full review
October 3, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
The film is an often thought-provoking metaphor. But as a thriller, it becomes dreary. full review
October 3, 2008
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 ... full review
October 3, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Fernando Meirelles' awkward, repulsive yet richly imagined film uses sightlessness as a trigger for the breakdown of society. full review
October 3, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Blindness is not a great film. But it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like.
October 3, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
If you've read Lord of the Flies or Animal Farm, you'll know how things progress. full review
October 2, 2008
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. full review
October 1, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Scene by scene, Blindness self-destructs. One begins to resent the art-crowd cast's willingness to do anything remotely nihilistic. full review
September 29, 2008
Anthony Lane, The 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. full review
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October 8, 2008The best movie of 08 a definite oscar nominee The only other film this year that even came close to breaking new ground was pixars' WALL-E.
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October 7, 2008Anyone else feel that stylistically, BLINDNESS was like THE HAPPENING meets BABEL?
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