Blessed Reviews
Unknown2
Blessed's relentless melodrama means the situations feel staged and stereotypical and both the mothers and children for the most part become painful, charmless annoyances who we want to go home to avoid.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticSome fine talent manages to rise above flimsy scenarios in this multi-thread expose of low-rent Melbourne mothering and its bitter legacy. Surely the whole truth would call for some rays of light in these shabby lives?
Cinema Autopsy
Blessed is uneven and overall not as good as Kokkinos's other films but it nevertheless contains some of her best work to date.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Empire Magazine Australasia
Brilliant performances and Kokkinos' assured direction result in another strong local production.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Courier Mail (Australia)
Blessed is a powerful and truthful movie experience that lingers long after the end.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Matt's Movie Reviews
A tad bloated and uncompromisingly bleak, Blessed is buoyed by its impressive ensemble cast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FILMINK (Australia)
Skilfully woven together, the separate tales that eventually intersect portray a touching look at the relationship between mothers and children.
Urban Cinefile
Ana Kokkinos has made an exquisitely and brutally powerful film about the indestructible but fragile thread that connects mothers and children.
Urban Cinefile
Blessed with cinematic ambition, Ana Kokkinos and her writing collaborators have forged a striking film out of pain and dysfunction, yet managing to pull out a serene sense of closure in the final moments.
At the Movies (Australia)
Kokkinos is never backward in confronting her audience, but she's also a sensitive portrayer of emotions that are basic to us all and with this marvellous film she has created her best work so far.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
The Age (Australia)
Blessed is a rich, unsettling vision of the mother-child relationship, By the end, it is clear that things are not always as they seem. Sometimes it's a reversal of expectations, sometimes an unpredictable consequence.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Eye for Film
A slow-burning, emotionally haunting film that thrusts the bond between mother and child under a microscope.
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| Original Score: 4/5
indieWIRE
Unforgiving in its shrewd relentlessness, the cast is flawless as is the direction.
