Blood
Image Entertainment | Release Date: August 9, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAug 9, 2013
At times, Blood, feels like a slightly-filled-out television police procedural with better cinematography, but the performances have an almost Shakespearean grandeur. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 7, 2013
This move is both redundant and counterproductive because it weakens one of the screenplay’s central conceits — the way Bettany’s guilt is shared and experienced by other characters. Read full review
67
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonAug 6, 2013
A smart, well-acted and well-directed picture that adds up to a little more than the sum of its parts. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanAug 8, 2013
While hardly reinventing the wheel, Blood works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt GlasbyJul 15, 2013
It’s a crisp, cold little thriller with a real sense of the noose tightening around otherwise unremarkable lives. Read full review
60
The DissolveNoel MurrayJul 15, 2013
All four of the main performances are so strong that they deserve more space to develop and intertwine. Instead, at times, Blood plays like one long “previously on” montage for the series that inspired it. Read full review
40
Village VoiceChris PackhamAug 6, 2013
Blood wants to be a Greek tragedy about family loyalties, guilt, and the fall of a dynasty, but the characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled police procedural. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyJul 15, 2013
The film’s family-saga pretensions and bombastically overdone characterisation keep hobbling its better elements. Read full review
40
The GuardianHenry BarnesJul 15, 2013
Originality may be out of Blood's jurisdiction, but it manages to plod on, dutifully walking a tired old beat. Read full review
38
New York PostV.A. MusettoAug 9, 2013
The landscape cinematography is often eye-pleasing, but the script is labored, filled with clichés and never allows for character development. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 8, 2013
Dark, airless and packed with psychological hurt that seems to spring from nowhere, this angry morality play, tucked inside a police procedural, suffers from a crippling lack of back story and characters whose relationships are fraught with unexplained complexity. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenAug 7, 2013
Blood feels perfunctory, needing something besides fussy plotting to jolt it to life. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDrew HuntAug 7, 2013
Themes of family ties, obsession, and morality, so dramatically realized in Conviction, are gracelessly and shapelessly strewn together here. Read full review
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