Bliss
Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): February 5, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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4
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9
Negative:
8
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60
The Irish TimesTara BradyFeb 5, 2021
Expect head-scratching, some non-sequiturs and lots of quirks and Bliss will mostly entertain and consistently baffle. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 4, 2021
Strip away the wiring, and Cahill’s film connects most tangibly as a fable about drug addiction – hardly a shock, with all the crystal-obsessed scurrying to make one grey reality bearable, or switch to another outright. He’s had more ingenious ideas, but the whole thing’s strangely charming. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubFeb 2, 2021
The emotional impact of those shots comes mainly from Wilson, who’s captured in several dialogue-free long takes. His signature drawl is silenced, and his face is forced to do work the screenplay hasn’t. He gives a weighty performance, delivered into a simulated void. Read full review
50
Film ThreatAlex SavelievFeb 6, 2021
The convoluted movie feels like a bunch of grandiose ideas in search of a connecting thread. Perhaps Cahill needs to reconnect with his indie roots to get his creative bliss back. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comNick AllenFeb 5, 2021
Bliss is far more kooky and tedious than it is good, and it's so confusing that even the movie's sense of humor is a question mark. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 5, 2021
With its blend of existential science fiction and character-based romance, it would seem to be as close to a can’t-miss premise as one can imagine yet, despite that, it somehow does miss – and by a wide margin. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 4, 2021
I wish the results were better, and a lot stranger. Cahill’s world-building has its moments, though. And the filmmaker did determine — correctly — that it’d be fun to have Bill Nye, the science guy, in a bow tie, portraying a sniffy scientific researcher. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiFeb 9, 2021
Written and directed by Mike Cahill, Bliss has strong ideas about economic inequality and it ambitiously works to pull off being a sci-fi thriller that is layered with social commentary. However, the film falls short of delivering something more compelling and complex, primarily because it's trying to do too much at once. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeb 2, 2021
As with both of his previous works, the filmmaker delivers an undeniably ambitious mind-bender that bites off more than it can narratively chew. Read full review
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