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

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    There's nothing particularly revolutionary about writer-director Robert Edwards' grimly satiric political fable. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    About as subtle as its all too obvious title would suggest. Read full review

  • 40
    The New Republic | Stanley Kauffmann

    The dialogue creaks, all the more so since we know better than it does what it is going to say. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Michael Atkinson

    It's an easy movie to loathe, but it's designed imaginatively and enjoys the committed attention of its cast. Read full review

  • 38
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Political satire is so rare that it's a shame to watch the reliable Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland lend their talents to one that is blind to its own incompetence. Read full review

  • 38
    TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

    First-time writer-director Robert Edwards is nothing if not ambitious, attempting to encapsulate the history of totalitarian oppression and misguided revolutionary zeal into a broad, blunt, black comedy. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Dark, grim, and cliched Orwellian satire. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Post |

    Though Fiennes has done (far) better work, the blurry story seems almost profound when seen through his eyes. To the extent the movie works at all, it works best when it's just the camera and Fiennes in a bleak white room. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety |

    One of the more spectacular misfires of recent years, Land of the Blind's lack of originality is only slightly exceeded by its failure to work as political satire. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Mr. Edwards, who wrote and directed Land of the Blind (it's his debut film), might counter that the movie is a Brechtian comedy that's not supposed to make literal sense: the big picture is what matters. But the big picture is a mess. Read full review

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