Its superficiality keeps it from being the moving story it could have been.
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11/24/09
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The Blind Side (2009)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:14
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: It might strike some viewers as a little too pat, but The Blind Side has the benefit of strong source material and a strong performance from Sandra Bullock.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 20, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $18
Synopsis: Drama. "The Blind Side" depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him... [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron
Director: John Lee Hancock
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Reviews for The Blind Side
Top CriticHowever obvious, The Blind Side is touching -- despite its habit of dropping major character notes into the melody without warning.
11/24/09
Top CriticOher’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 we’re willing to be about how it’s told.
11/24/09
Top CriticWriter-director John Lee Hancock has turned Oher's remarkable life into a Hollywood fable that trades difficult truths for easy clichés.
11/20/09
Top CriticWhat a drag that, one year into Obama's presidency, American films remain so careful about depicting black actors.
11/20/09
Top CriticIt's a cute, touchy-feely crowd pleaser that wants nothing more than to wrap audiences in a warm holiday embrace. In a sense, it achieves that goal, but it is overly sentimental in a Lifetime movie kind-of-way.
11/20/09
Top CriticWe never learn why Leigh Anne is so fearless, but Bullock is the force here. McGraw is an amiable anchor to her bull-by-the-horns portrayal.
11/20/09
Top CriticUpon seeing [Bullock's] Oscar-worthy performance is "finally!" followed quickly by, "Why the heck did it take so long?"
11/20/09
Top CriticA movie made up almost entirely of turning points and yet curiously devoid of drama or suspense.
11/20/09
Top CriticThe movie glosses over the deeper issues of the tale, ones dealing with race, poverty, privilege and ethics, opting for the feel-good quick hit that makes the overall experience unsatisfying.
11/20/09
Top CriticWhat makes The Blind Side a Thanksgiving treat is director Hancock's subtle touch and admirable refusal to yield to sports movie clichés, something he did previously with The Rookie and Remember the Titans.
11/20/09
Top CriticSpeaking of being blindsided, The Blind Side is good enough to make me almost forgive Sandra Bullock for All About Steve
11/19/09
Top CriticIf someone were telling you this story, you might say, "Wow. That's something." Even so, the narrative is not quite big enough to bear the weight and significance that writer-director John Lee Hancock tries to attach to it.
11/19/09
Top CriticIf Frank Capra was still around, director John Lee Hancock might have had to fight him for the job.
11/19/09
Top CriticWatching The Blind Side, I felt my emotions being stage-managed, but once or twice I got something in my eye.
11/19/09
Top CriticDirector John Lee Hancock's only aiming for a crowd pleaser, and by not challenging the established playbook for inspirational sports dramas, he's no doubt got one.
11/19/09
Top CriticThe Blind Side fumbles a remarkable, true story of an African-American product of the West Memphis projects who ended up at a Christian school and in the care of a wealthy white family, and then went on to professional football glory.
11/19/09
Top CriticSome will doubtlessly dismiss The Blind Side as another example of a heroic white person saving a black victim but, although there is an element of truth in that perfunctory description, it misses the point.
11/18/09
Top CriticWriter-director John Lee Hancock wisely lets the true story of Michael Oher speak for itself.
11/18/09
Top CriticWhat The Blind Side offers is a kind of liberal Hollywood version of conservative values: all rock-solid valor, all the time.
11/18/09
Top CriticLatest News for The Blind Side
November 24, 2009:
The Blind Side Springs Hancock from Movie Jail 
All the positive buzz surrounding "The Blind Side" must be nice for Sandra Bullock, but it's particularly liberating for director John Lee Hancock, who's been in "movie jail"... More...
November 19, 2009:
Critics Consensus: New Moon Wanes
This week at the movies, we've got hot teen vampires (The Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson); a football family (The Blind Side, starring... More...
November 05, 2009:
Oscar Buzz for Sandra Bullock?
Could Sandra Bullock possibly earn an Oscar nomination the same year that "All About Steve" came out? She will if the Los Angeles Times' Pete Hammond has anything to say about it. More...
September 29, 2009:
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