The Blind Side (2009)

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Quite how Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for her one-note turn as bleached supermum Leigh-Anne is a mystery, since it transforms a potentially worthwhile character study into a grandstanding star vehicle.

March 25, 2010 Full Review

Trevor Johnston

Time Out

Top Critic

Its superficiality keeps it from being the moving story it could have been.

November 24, 2009 Full Review | Comments (9)

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

However obvious, The Blind Side is touching -- despite its habit of dropping major character notes into the melody without warning.

November 24, 2009 Full Review

David Hiltbrand

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Oherâ(TM)s life is meant to make us feel good, and it mostly does. But how good we feel about his story is proportional to how blind weâ(TM)re willing to be about how itâ(TM)s told.

November 24, 2009 Full Review

Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

Top Critic

Writer-director John Lee Hancock has turned Oher's remarkable life into a Hollywood fable that trades difficult truths for easy clichés.

November 20, 2009 Full Review | Comments (5)

Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

What a drag that, one year into Obama's presidency, American films remain so careful about depicting black actors.

November 20, 2009 Full Review | Comments (18)

Stephen Cole

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

It's certainly a heartwarming tale and Bullock delivers a big, ballsy performance as the indomitable Tuohy - but Oscar-worthy? What were they thinking?

August 2, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Serves its purpose by making the audience tear up in some moments and cheer in others. It's a total button-pusher, but it does so in a very good way.

July 21, 2012 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Football may the thread that runs throughout, but the movie is much more interested in the tale of how Oher left behind a life of poverty, violence and foster-home despair to become a champ on the gridiron.

September 30, 2011 Full Review

Neil Pond

American Profile

A living tribute to fundamental Christian motivations, although the point is hammered home with an extraordinarily soft touch: Love thy neighbor.

July 5, 2011 Full Review

Burl Burlingame

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

You're going to be crying by the end.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

The Blind Side, which has reportedly made close to 200 million dollars, is based on a true story (the operative word is "based," of course).

February 23, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dan Callahan

House Next Door

Sing it together with me my brothers, thank the Lawd for he created the white man that he might teach them po' negroes the value of good Christian chariddy.

February 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (13)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

While The Blind Side constantly threatens to deteriorate into sentimental saccharine, it never does. Bullock's accent grates at first, but she bonds well with McGraw

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

The Blind Side's heart is in the right place--how could it not be, it's got so much to go around--but that's about all that is. There's a good story in there, one that's probably worth experiencing, but load up on insulin before you go.

January 7, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

A nice-as-pie story that lacks any real tension or drama and threatens repeatedly to veer into sappy territory, yet somehow, just through foolhardy "goodness", manages to be consistently enjoyable (if a little slight) for its two hours.

September 28, 2010 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Although based in reality, John Lee Hancock's tale never seems more than just a more serious version of TV's Different Strokes or Webster.

May 13, 2010 Full Review

James Croot

Flicks.co.nz

It often feels like a Republican curative for Precious.

April 14, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Alice Tynan

The Vine

Sports movie carefully sidesteps the issue of race and stereotypes

April 4, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

Una cinta amena, sencilla de digerir y apta para toda la familia, una fábula de la vida real de las que pocas veces suceden y cuando lo hacen, son dignas de llevarlas a la pantalla.

April 3, 2010 Full Review

Luis Martinez

Cinenganos

Zanatski korektno djelce u kojem poku%u0161aji da se filmu pred kraj "napumpa" drama nisu previ%u0161e uvjerljivi

April 1, 2010 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

Draxblog Movie Reviews

The Blind Side wears its heart on its shoulder padding for the entire 128 minutes and eventually, the wholesomeness of the characters, pulling together for a common cause, wins us over.

March 26, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Catherine Jones

Liverpool Echo

Some will find it overly sentimental but it does succeed in pulling at the heartstrings - and Sandy proves she really can act.

March 26, 2010 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Post

• 1. Leigh Anne Tuohy: If you so much as set foot downtown, you will be sorry. I'm in a prayer group with the D.A., I'm a member of the NRA and I'm always packin'.
  – Submitted by Alyssa B (7 days ago)
• 1. Michael Oher: It's nice, I never had one before.
  2. Leigh Anne Tuohy: What, a room to yourself?
  3. Michael Oher: A bed.
  – Submitted by Adam O (59 days ago)
• 1. Leigh Anne Tuohy: I said you could thank me later. It's later, Bert.
  – Submitted by Adam O (59 days ago)
• 1. Sean Tuohy: We were wondering if you would like to become a part of this family.
  2. Michael Oher: I kinda thought I already was.
  – Submitted by Adam O (59 days ago)
• 1. Leigh Anne Tuohy: I don't want to name names but one of the coaches took him to a titty bar. Gave him nightmares.
  – Submitted by Adam O (59 days ago)
• 1. Sean Tuohy: Who would've thought we'd have a black son before we met a Democrat?
  – Submitted by Adam O (59 days ago)

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