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Blind Side
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Based on 150 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
John Lee Hancock
Michael Lewis (book)
Directed by: John Lee Hancock
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 20, 2009
DVD: March 23, 2010
Running Time: 126 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references
Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Lily Collins, and Jae Head
Teenager Michael Oher is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy. Learning that the young man is one of her daughter's classmates, Leigh Anne insists that Michael--wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter--come out of the cold. Without a moment's hesitation, she invites him to stay at the Tuohy home for the night. What starts out as a gesture of kindness turns into something more as Michael becomes part of the Tuohy family despite the differences in their backgrounds. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
New York Post Lou Lumenick
What 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."
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
One of the reasons it's so effective is because it's based on a real-life, odds-defying story: that of mountainous Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher (played by Quinton Aaron).
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Without restraint or subtlety, but with a lot of heart and energy, this movie tells a real-life tall tale.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Best performance, minute for minute, comes from Adriane Lenox, whose cameo as Michael's drug-addled mother is the film's standout.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Grounded in the direct, disarming truth of their experience, the movie has a straightforward lack of cheap sentiment that saves it from being either too maudlin or saccharine-sweet.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
In a head-to-head comparison, one would be hard-pressed not to declare that "Precious" is the better film - it makes fewer compromises and doesn't shy from showing the true ugliness only hinted at in this movie, but The Blind Side is more accessible. It's easier to digest. In the end, both films tell stories of triumph over adversity - a category of drama that uplifts while offering a dollop of social commentary.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Bullock is an irrepressible hoot in writer-director John Lee Hancock's otherwise thoroughly conventional take on Michael Lewis' fact-based book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game."
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Uplifting and entertaining feel-good, fact-based sports drama.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The story is inspiring and involves sports, but to call it an inspirational sports story would be wrong; its real center is Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock in a fine performance), the strong-willed woman whose love and generosity helped turn a mute, hopeless boy with no social or academic skills into a functioning young man with a promising future.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
Wisely, Hancock has given the film as much humor as heart.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
It’s not an altogether convincing portrait, but it is an entertaining, even moving one, and the forcefulness of Bullock's presence goes a long way in pulling the film back from the brink of cuddliness.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Bullock’s levelheaded acting frequently saves the movie from emotional garishness.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
An engaging if transparent tearjerker of the first water.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
Michael as a character is defined almost solely by his helplessness and gratitude. He's as lovable as a lost puppy, but a more perceptive movie than The Blind Side would have let us see him from another angle.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
For all The Blind Side's flaws, it's impossible not to get caught up in Michael Oher's life.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Freer
Bullock delivers a towering performance that grabs the movie and the Oscar race by the scruff of the neck. You will be moved, but at the price of any nuance or complexity.
Read Full Review >NPR Bob Mondello
Unlike the tale told in "Precious", however, The Blind Side's story is contrived, storybook sweet, credulity-straining and ... um, true.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Never dull, but it's rarely more than gently entertaining.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
A football story that deserves a penalty flag every other play for piling on the sentiment.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Veers perilously close to the concept of poverty tourism.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A feel-good movie that never stops feeling good. The film is based on a true story (it was adapted from a nonfiction best-seller by Michael Lewis), but you never feel that Hancock has honestly captured what's true about it.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The film, not unsurprisingly for a holiday- (and football-) season release from a major Hollywood studio, plays this story straight down the middle, shedding nuance and complication in favor of maximum uplift.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's fair to say that Bullock's appealing portrait of a strong-willed Tennessee belle ranks among the best work of her career. It's just too bad the movie around her comes up short.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
A facile, feel-good fable that substitutes cliché for reality at nearly every turn.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Sports movies have a long, troubled history of well-meaning white paternalism, with poor black athletes finding success through white charity. But The Blind Side, based on Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book, finds a new low.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York David Fear
It’s just blinkered middle-class pandering at its most shameless.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Melissa Anderson
Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of African-Americans who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 150 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Hannah B. gave it a4:
This movie feels like a racist Disney Channel movie. I mean the idea that some white lady changes a black guys life is demeaning. Sure, an okay performance from Sandra Bullock but an Oscar?! That's ridiculous.
shawn A gave it a2:
I wonder who Jesse James slept with to get Sandra an Academy Award? What a B level actress at best.
Dan L gave it a10:
This movie has some of the best acting and dramatization I have seen from a movie in a long time. Sandra Bullock normally plays in goofy, ditzy roles, but she did a wonderful job in her serious role. The other thing that I liked to see is that she played the dominant role in the house even though her husband played by Tim McGraw created most of the income. So all in all this movie was an all around great movie and Sandra Bullock deserved the Oscar that she won for it.
Tim G. gave it a9:
I liked the book better because the football scenes in the movie are tough to reproduce accurately.
martin s gave it a5:
I found this movie a bit condescending despite all the good intentions. The fact that it was nominated for an oscar shows just how easy it is to manipulate the selection committee.
Ethan C. gave it an8:
Of course they couldn't be nice people, that would be to unpessimistic of a view. Of course they could not do it for the fact that they wanted to be decent, they had to be "hell bent boosters", wanting to get Ole' Miss a championship tackle. Get a grip. It tells a very un-cliched tale, of a boy who finally finds the right spot in life. It also avoids many cliched sports movie moments (very rare). Some of the parts are awkward, and it does get slightly confusing here and there, but none the less this movie is very good. Don't listen to any of the critics, they just need to take the awkwardly placed football, and take it out of their you know what.
Andy gave it a9:
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