Notes on Blindness
BOND360 | Release Date: November 16, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
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Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshNov 25, 2016
The film’s quiet impact comes as it leads us along John’s journey to understanding this disability as an unexpected, but ultimately accepted, gift. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen HoldenNov 15, 2016
The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes. Read full review
90
Screen DailyWendy IdeJul 14, 2016
Hull’s wisdom, and the agility of his insights as he struggles to make sense of his condition, form the basis of this elegant, evocative and deeply affecting documentary. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeNov 25, 2016
Notes on Blindness is more than sufficient to prove that sightlessness, however unwelcome, is a richer experience than we may assume. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 15, 2016
It is a thoroughly absorbing and moving film, especially when Hull has a dream about recovering his sight and seeing his children. The tone is sober, unflashy, and Hull’s reflections on God are presented without any hectoring or special pleading. Affecting and profoundly intelligent. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonDave CalhounJul 17, 2016
Hull clearly had a profound and lucid response to his blindness, and this thoughtful, illuminating film goes some way to inhabiting his thoughts. Read full review
80
CineVueBen NicholsonJul 14, 2016
Notes on Blindness raises fascinating questions about our reliance on visual memory aids and the amount to which we truly experience the world around us. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyJul 14, 2016
A seamless patchwork of reminiscences, tracing John’s voyage into darkness with an astute and sensitive cinematic imagination. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlNov 18, 2016
By having their actors lip-sync along to Hull and his family's own voices, the staged re-creations that so often pad nonfiction films here achieve a peculiar formalist beauty. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonNov 17, 2016
If the subject interests you, don’t let my mildly negative review dissuade you from going to see it. I would like to see it again myself, but this time in the version I can share with several of my relatives whose vision is no longer present. Read full review
60
Total FilmStephen PuddicombeJul 14, 2016
It never quite gets inside the head of its subject, writer/theologian John Hull. Thankfully, Hull’s observations – an audio diary – provide plenty of insight and engagement. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneNov 14, 2016
Its fatal mistake is to make up for blindness, instead of embracing it as something other than a liability. Read full review
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