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As timely as it is overall impactful, Blindspotting blends buddy comedy with seething social commentary, and rises on the strength of Daveed Diggs' powerful performance.
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A mercurial and explosive film, Blindspotting nimbly parses conflicts about race, rent, incarceration and gentrification. Dec 30, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A mercurial and explosive film, Blindspotting nimbly parses conflicts about race, rent, incarceration and gentrification.
Daniel Gallant
It's acted with naturalistic brio and the script, by Diggs and Casal, is full of pungent dialogue and nuanced reflections on Collin's struggle to avoid becoming a stereotypically angry young black man. Oct 4, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's acted with naturalistic brio and the script, by Diggs and Casal, is full of pungent dialogue and nuanced reflections on Collin's struggle to avoid becoming a stereotypically angry young black man.
Ed Potton
Try and take your electrified eyes off it. It's practically 2018: The Movie. Oct 4, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Try and take your electrified eyes off it. It's practically 2018: The Movie.
Mike McCahill
Racism, gentrification, police brutality, start-up culture, corporate branding, social media, the justice system ... Blindspotting is eager to take them all on with style and wit, and it succeeds more often than not. Jul 27, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Racism, gentrification, police brutality, start-up culture, corporate branding, social media, the justice system ... Blindspotting is eager to take them all on with style and wit, and it succeeds more often than not.
Barry Hertz
"Blindspotting" is directed with fervor by first-timer Carlos López Estrada, who brings its simmering tensions to a boil without letting the pot overflow. Jul 27, 2018 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
"Blindspotting" is directed with fervor by first-timer Carlos López Estrada, who brings its simmering tensions to a boil without letting the pot overflow.
Adam Graham
[Casal and Diggs'] talent and charisma are all but undeniable, and their ambition is impossible not to admire, but their execution is confused - fatally so, from a storytelling standpoint. Jul 27, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
[Casal and Diggs'] talent and charisma are all but undeniable, and their ambition is impossible not to admire, but their execution is confused - fatally so, from a storytelling standpoint.
Matthew Lickona
Blindspotting explores and articulates numerous issues which feel particularly relevant in today's sociopolitical climate, while also serving as a love letter to Diggs and Casal's native Oakland. Apr 9, 2019 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Blindspotting explores and articulates numerous issues which feel particularly relevant in today's sociopolitical climate, while also serving as a love letter to Diggs and Casal's native Oakland.
Brent Hankins
Blindspotting opens your eyes to social issues in a way that hasn't been done on screen since Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. It's slick, funny, and sincere, and one of the year's very best. Mar 30, 2019 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Blindspotting opens your eyes to social issues in a way that hasn't been done on screen since Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. It's slick, funny, and sincere, and one of the year's very best.
Preston Barta
An undeniably important movie, Blindspotting steers away from the safe zone and delivers an impressively executed script. [Full review in Spanish]. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
An undeniably important movie, Blindspotting steers away from the safe zone and delivers an impressively executed script. [Full review in Spanish].
Federico Furzan
Blindspotting is a near faultless film - bravely engaging with topical issues while providing a frank, often funny, look at those caught in the mess. Mar 6, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Blindspotting is a near faultless film - bravely engaging with topical issues while providing a frank, often funny, look at those caught in the mess.
Carmen Paddock
This is a powerful, well-acted film with memorable characters. Director Carlos López Estrada makes good use of imagery, poetry, drama and humor to illustrate what it is like to live as a troubled black man in a racially divided city. Feb 24, 2019 | Rating: A | Full Review…
This is a powerful, well-acted film with memorable characters. Director Carlos López Estrada makes good use of imagery, poetry, drama and humor to illustrate what it is like to live as a troubled black man in a racially divided city.
Robert Roten
Has the high-energy crackle and syncopated rhythms of a rap battle, with its buddy comedy format sharing the stage and trading rhymes and times with its deeper societal commentary element to nimble effect. Feb 18, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Has the high-energy crackle and syncopated rhythms of a rap battle, with its buddy comedy format sharing the stage and trading rhymes and times with its deeper societal commentary element to nimble effect.
Amber Wilkinson
A buddy comedy with perception, wit, an edge, and balls, we are taken into the crossroads of modern urban living - downtown Oakland, baby! - where clear cut roads are hard to find, much less follow, and where the divisions between us are worth an ass-kicking. One of the buds is on probation and trying to change his circumstance. The other should be on probation...at the very least. Preachy sometimes, but always electrifying. Good stuff.
Super Reviewer
Spectacularly well made, and even weirdly kind of relatable in parts, Blindspotting may not come away being my favourite movie of the year or anything, but it's the sort of one that I would absolutely not be mad about taking home the big awards. Absolutely felt these characters. The only movie in literally as long as I can remember, that actually gave me nightmares.
BLINDSPOTTING (3 1/2 Stars) A tad overstuffed...oh who am I kidding...it's completely overstuffed in that first time director kinda way...but it's filled with energy, passion and a unique look at friendship, race, gentrification, and how we see or don't see each other simultaneously. David Diggs and Rafael Casal, who co-wrote, take a buddy stoner comedy and turn it on its ear. It spins its wheels at times, but there's something fresh and bold about it nonetheless. Like the inferior SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, it has a lot going on, but our two BLINDSPOTTING leads make you care.
It is hard to see an intelligent film that transits so smoothly from buddy comedy to serious drama within a structure that is essentially Shakespearean, with characters that never seem less than real and a hard-hitting racial statement delivered with the necessary acuity and perception.
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