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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, Blindsight is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life -- or at least get off the couch. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Tribune |

    Their story is deeply involving, all the more so because it isn't simple or straightforward. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Walker was the best choice to document this journey. For one thing, her first film, "Devil's Playground," and its examination of how Amish teenagers react when confronted with the outside world, showed her to be both curious and fearless. Plus, it turns out she is herself blind in one eye. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Simultaneously a sports adventure film, a tear-jerking tale of hope and inspiration and a captivating meditation on culture clash. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe |

    The movie is about hope and courage and fortitude. It's about beating the odds and defying expectations. But Lucy Walker's movie is also about whether the trip was a good idea in the first place. The answer is compellingly complicated. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    The deceptively complex picture gradually grows sharp edges and snowballs into a compelling study in culture clash, with spectacular scenery to boot. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Spiritually aware documentary. Read full review

  • 67
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Bill White

    A moving and touching documentary. Read full review

  • 60
    Village Voice |

    Blindsight works best when it casts off the constraints of the adventure tale it wasn't meant to be and settles into a deft and humanistic treatment of blindness in Tibet. Read full review

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