The Blind Side Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

You're going to be crying by the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Generally enjoyable, but it isn't until the credits roll that you'll realize what a major sentimental impact it has on you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

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.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Enjoyable, mass-market crowd pleaser that allowed Sandra Bullock to win an honorable Best Actress Oscar as the Republican spitfire who takes up the cause of a homeless teenager who just so happens to also be an outstanding left tackle.

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100

You have to keep reminding yourself that The Blind Side is based on real events. It seems much more like a cannily concocted, sugar-coated fairytale designed to inspire and uplift.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Here is a movie that honours a downtrodden financial, racial and political minority: rich, white southern Republicans who carry guns and aren't afraid to threaten black people with them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Oher's miserable start in life shouldn't have happened, but it did -- and The Blind Side is a film that shouldn't work, but does.

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It's clumsy, obvious film-making but then if you buy into it, well, it's kind of lovably basic in its emotional button pushing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

You will be moved, but at the price of any nuance or complexity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

There are several good scenes, even if you can spot the Oscar / trailer clips a mile away, such as when one of Leigh Anne's stuck-up friends remarks "You're changing that boy's life" and she replies, "Nope. He's changing mine."

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Bullock has pulled a blinder herself. It's a doughty performance, and worth singling out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It does the crowd-pleasing act almost perfectly.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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