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Dominican Rep. Blindness
22,921
Drama. Thriller
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague ... [+]
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"A brilliant idea that seems to lack the vision to be great. (...) begins with a powerful and disorienting sense of foreboding. But the middle lags, and by the film's conclusion, you're left feeling curiously unsatisfied (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" | NEU |
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Empire | "Handicapped by pretensions to making big statements, Blindness is still gripping, disturbing and intermittently powerful" | POS |
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"There's a good movie here, but we get it in pieces that are sometimes hard to decipher." | NEU |
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"At times almost unbearably ugly, but by the time you walk out of the theater, you know you've seen something." | POS |
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"Meirelles' slickly crafted drama rarely achieves the visceral force, tragic scope and human resonance of Saramago's prose" | NEU |
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"Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen. (...) My eyes, ears and patience were assaulted (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" | NEG |
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"An arresting, often riveting film that is fascinating to look at but not nearly so interesting to watch" | NEU |
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"A perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory." | POS |
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"'Blindness' is provocative cinema. But it also is predictable cinema: It startles but does not surprise." | NEU |
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"An intelligent, tightly constructed, supremely confident adaptation (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" | POS |
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"Not a great film, mainly because it can't transcend -- and, indeed, lays bare -- the intellectual flimsiness of its source. But it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like." | NEU |
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