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15 (POLAND)
2018
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Blindspotting
Positive Reviews
140
Negative reviews
22
Average Rating
3.9
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2.0
Its a fine if pretty familiar thesis; what rankles is the elaborately precious affectation of their formal devices.
Av Club
2.0
A timely meditation on what it means to be black and presumed guilty in America.
EW
5.0
Like all great movies, Blindspotting is a force to be reckoned with and wrestled with. No matter where you land in your assessment, your expectations ..
Rogerebert
4.0
This indie dramedy could have been a hard knock urban story, but instead its funny and insightful, with heartfelt characters, as well as astute enough ..
Common Sense Media
2.0
This dynamic simmers in their scenes together, until it finally bursts in a climactic showdown thats at once inevitable and terrifying for the authent ..
Indie Wire
4.5
This dynamic simmers in their scenes together, until it finally bursts in a climactic showdown thats at once inevitable and terrifying for the authent ..
Indie Wire
4.5
And though the two have clearly got one anothers backs, theres undeniable tension between Collin (Diggs) and Miles (Casal) thats bound to erupt before ..
Variety
5.0
Blindspotting is a force to be reckoned with in terms of experience, anger and boiled frustrations that beg anyone watching to lead the charge for cha ..
We Got This Covered
4.0
A mercurial and explosive film, Blindspotting nimbly parses conflicts about race, rent, incarceration and gentrification.
Time Out
4.0
What could have been laboured and polemical is deftly handled, defused with comedy and powered by a pulsating score.
The Guardian
4.0
Yet without any wrenching gearshifts, it gradually drives its characters on to darker, meaner streets.
The Guardian
2.5
The film takes aim at myriad targets and bluntly satirizing them in disparate styles that never mesh into a cohesive whole.
5.0
Miles hates it, but Collin isnt so sure; hes not reflexively opposed to change if it means better health and prospects.
1.5
But as led by Daveed Diggs impassioned, tormented performance, Blindspotting is hard to shake, despite its on the nose plot points and melodramatic fl ..
Screen Daily
3.0
Blindspotting doesnt have all the answers, and it doesnt even really attempt to give them, but it does provide a road to understanding through empathy ..
Collider
4.5
Blindspotting doesnt have all the answers, and it doesnt even really attempt to give them, but it does provide a road to understanding through empathy ..
Collider
1.5
A comedy drama so caught up in its teachable moments that it often fails to come off like either.
Vulture
4.5
Given Miles impulsive irresponsibility, the smartest thing Collin could do would be to stay away from Miles until hes in the clear.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Funny, vibrant, insightful, tragic, achingly timely, and yet with an underlying message about empathy that is timeless, Blindspotting may be the summe ..
4.5
I unabashedly admire the movies aims, and think Blindspotting ought to be seen by the widest audience possible.
The New York Times
3.5
Blindspotting succeeds in the smaller moments more so than with the bigger picture.
The Young Folks
4.0
By equal turns tense and witty but with plenty of perceptive social commentary to go around, this is a film that only gets more rewarding the more you ..
3.5
While BLINDSPOTTING doesnt always work, and is a little uneven considering the short ninety minute running time, overall the subject matter is compell ..
JoBlo
4.5
Blindspotting effectively balances buddy comedy with astute social commentary, providing fun and gut wrenching anger and despair in equal measure.
Screen Rant
4.4
Like Sorry to Bother Yous Boots Riley, director Carlos Lopez Estrada captures Oakland in a hyper stylized light, while Diggs offers the film a charmin ..
The Globe And Mail
3.1
feeling of spontaneity and the admirable nuance... defines most of the movie.
Philly
4.5
Superb and daring ... a thrilling, riotous, language drunk elegy and celebration for this most unfixed of cities.
Village Voice
3.5
For the most part an insightful urban indie dramedy that intelligently reflects on violence and race issues, using comedy and rap music to its advanta ..
Sover
3.8
Blindspotting is a compelling film with much to say about subjects like gentrification and race things it approaches with a mix of wit and seriousness ..
ReelViews
2.0
Diggs and Casal have a defined vision for characters and tension, supplying a meaningful primal scream in the middle of a world gone mad.
Blu Ray
5.0
Like the recent horror phenomenon Get Out, Sorry to Bother You ponders the danger of trying to assimilate into the white world, but at heart its a mul ..
Chicago Reader
4.4
Theres a genuine sense of camaraderie and affection between these two characters that cannot be faked...
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
The film is sprinkled with the type of small moments and details that elevate, a trenchant tee shirt here, an old wedding photo there, a faulty house ..
4.0
I love the relevance of the subject matter. They dont beat you over the head with it and make it all serious and preachy. But at the same time, they g ..
You Tube
4.0
Its so incredibly tense and everything that did feel messy and scattered all of a sudden comes together in a way that does feel cohesive, and does fee ..
You Tube
4.0
Blindspotting 15, 95 mins A desire to make a big impression is a driving force behind this drama about two friends one white, one black and their diff ..
The Times
4.0
Its acted with naturalistic brio and the script, by Diggs and Casal, is full of pungent dialogue and nuanced reflections on Collins struggle to avoid ..
The Times
3.0
This is a powerful, well acted film with memorable characters. Director Carlos Lpez Estrada makes good use of imagery, poetry, drama and humor to illu ..
Lariat
4.0
Reportedly 10 years in the making, Blindspotting is a refreshingly original, gritty and stylised version of the typical rites of passage story.
Independent
3.5
Two Oakland homies, Hamilton star Daveed Diggs and poet Rafael Casal, create an intensely personal story about life on the edge in a rapidly changing ..
Rolling Stone
3.0
In this edition we have swaggering rock n roll from Sisteray, shadowy trip hop from Alpines, classy contemporary pop from RuthAnne, intricate ambient ..
Pop Matters
1.5
Co stars and co writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have a lot to say, much of it funny and/or provocative, but neither they nor first time feature ..
The Wrap
3.8
Given its stylish and thoughtful handling of sensitive issues, Blindspotting could prove to be one of the most memorable films youll see in the back h ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
This is a movie that should be seen. You will think about it for a long time, wrestling with the questions it asks and doesnt always answer, at least ..
Az Central
4.4
From the mean streets of Oakland, Calif., comes a story about friendship, race and class thats a veritable revelation suffused with authenticity and w ..
Toronto Star
4.0
Theres a Clerks esque vibe to the feckless, laidback bants, yet the zesty multiculturalism and feel for the local scene ensure Blindspotting is amply ..
Flim List
4.5
While police brutality has been occurring for years, the effects of have recently began to trickle into cinema. A truly powerful masterpiece, Blindspo ..
Film Inquiry
3.5
Has the high energy crackle and syncopated rhythms of a rap battle, with its buddy comedy format sharing the stage and trading rhymes and times with i ..
Eye For Film
4.0
Still, Blindspotting is thoughtfully ambitious filmmaking stuffed with lessons and eye opening insight.
Flickering Myth
4.0
Even when the film tosses in unbelievably tense moments, the narrative doesnt feel disjointed.
Flim Threet
1.5
The conflicts are schematic, the characters are thinly sketched, and Diggs displays his hip hop artistry as if stepping upstage.
New Yorker
4.5
Blindspotting is entertaining, but it also packs an emotional punch.
Time
3.0
Oakland set social satire takes insightful look at race and gentrification.
Boston Herald
4.4
An exuberant, brightly colored, zigzagging portrait of a city, an uneasy transformation and a friendship.
Chicago Tribune
3.8
See the movie, for its urgency, for its performances, and for the vibrant portrait of a community being erased in the names of progress and profit.
Boston Globe
3.0
Theres a lot to love about this vivid, rhythmic, Do The Right Thing for contemporary Oakland, though it does feel slightly incomplete.
Uproxx
4.5
I promise, theres a lot more humor in this movie than youd ever expect.
Uproxx
4.5
Blindspotting has enough verve, humor, and passion to recommend it even as it overplays its hand in its final minutes.
The Atlantic
4.5
At its core, Estradas picture is a buddy comedy, observing as two goofballs find ways to amuse themselves in a hometown that may no longer feel like h ..
Birth Movies Death
4.5
It keeps feeling like its about to cross a line into heavy handed misery but never does, though it makes you suffer on the way to that discovery, some ..
Birth Movies Death
2.0
The movie hits clich rut whenever female characters come into the picture.
Coles Mithey
4.5
There arent enough superlatives I can throw at this film. Its funny and tense, honest and insightful, and painfully prescient. At the end of the day, ..
Pajiba
5.0
This is a story that is fresh, funny and vital, the electrifying observational meditations at its center overflowing with a satirical edge thats frequ ..
Movie Freak
2.0
Its one more thing on his mind in this ambitious, complex tale which asks a lot of hard questions and doesnt pretend to have all the answers.
Detroit News
3.5
Collin and Miless relationship also allows the movie to carefully but confidently address some of the thornier realities that abstracted political and ..
Vox
2.0
Yes, youll likely leave the theater blown away by Casal and Diggs considerable talent, but its Estradas vision that will haunt you.
The Play List
3.0
Gentrification, police brutality and the prison industrial complex are just some of the many, many talking points Blindspotting grapples with in ways ..
Now Toronto
3.5
Although its pacing can feel a bit uneven at times, Blindspotting is a relentlessly charming and thoughtful movie, elevated by a tremendously talented ..
Ner Dist
4.5
If youre putting BlacKKKlansman on your list as one of the best movies of the year... then you need to watch this movie. And this needs to go on your ..
You Tube
4.0
The films spell grows and grows, perhaps because were not sure exactly what the writers and first time director Carlos Lpez Estrada are preaching or p ..
Ft
4.5
Still, Blindspotting, which was the heralded opening night film at the festival, has an undeniable presence.
Vanity Fair
4.5
Its wildly entertaining, and in a moment where Black Lives Matter has been occasionally overcooked in pop culture, the movie still feels timely and ex ..
Refinery 29
5.0
A contemporary fable told in dynamic syncopation and unexpected compassion as it uncovers the farce and tragedy of an Oakland in transition.
Killer Movie Reviews
4.5
What feels like the most slept on film of 2018, Blindspotting is, above all else, a magnificent performance piece.
Film
4.5
When watching Blindspotting, its hard to tell that it is the first major film from co writers/co stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal and the feature d ..
Film
5.0
To certain mindsets, hes suspect even when hes not remotely a suspect.
Chicago Sun Times
3.5
Diggs is a force of a nature, dropping verbal dimes in monologues that are the backbone of the entire story.
Punch Drunk Critics
4.5
Part of an exciting new wave of movies addressing Americas racial divide (see: Sorry to Bother You), these guys take huge risks.
Straight
1.0
talent and charisma are all but undeniable, and their ambition is impossible not to admire, but their execution is confused fatally so, from a storyte ..
Sandiego Reader
3.0
Unfortunately, while the scene is riveting, it isnt grounded in reality.
We Live Entertainment
3.0
There is much to recommend about Blindspotting, even if it isnt always completely successful in balancing the tricky tone of Diggs and Casals pulsatin ..
Dead Line
2.0
The buddy film has its pulse on the contemporary Oakland scene, leaving us with a thoughtful but flawed film about their beloved changing Oakland.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.4
Estrada has made a vibrant film, one popping with ideas and ideals as it presents a vivid and complicated Oakland.
Mercury News
5.0
Blindspotting is a near faultless film bravely engaging with topical issues while providing a frank, often funny, look at those caught in the mess.
The Skinny
4.5
The films empathetic lens instills the feeling that the places on screen may already be gone by now, turning Blindspotting into a kind of documentary ..
Polygon
2.0
Real life friends Diggs and Casal must have less of an unstable dynamic than their characters; the two actors wrote Blindspotting together and perform ..
Film Avclub
4.0
Despite this, theres no sense in which Blindspotting is, conventionally speaking, a message movie.
Alternate Ending
4.5
A little messy, but more often than not Blindspotting is a bold, freewheeling examination of race in class in gentrifying America.
Lainey Gossip
4.4
More than a treatise or answer key, its a palpable blast of frustration and rage that shakes you and should vault Diggs to the top of every casting ag ..
Seattle Times
4.5
The friends never stop moving and never stop talking either, occasionally bursting into furious, freestyle raps.
Film Journal International ..
3.0
We didnt set out to write a movie about issues; we set out to write a movie about people.
Fresh Fiction
4.5
In Miles mind, hes more ghetto than any man alive, but its plain to see hes still a kid at heart.
East Bay Express
4.5
Penned by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, Blindspotting is a treasure and a love letter to Oakland
Black Girl Nerds
4.5
Blindspotting the unusual term will be defined by Collins ex girlfriend Val, given sympathetic portrayal by Janina Gavankar is one of a number of film ..
National Post
4.5
This snappy look at the divide between race and class in the Bay Area is fresh and exciting despite being messy and overly ambitious.
Original Cin
4.5
A boldly spitfire, outspoken film of the summer you dont want to miss.
Rendy Reviews
4.5
Diggs and Casal are such a perfect comedy team that Im going to have to insist that they make a series of road movies together over the next 10 years ..
Third Coast Review
4.5
The film offers a representation that wouldnt necessarily be represented on screen, but its a story worth telling and does it more so as a buddy comed ..
Cultured Vultures
3.0
Exceptional performances a gripping story, and a nuanced, sometimes poetic portrayal of issues of race, class, and friendship.
Movie Mom
4.5
This is a devastatingly surefooted debut by music video director Carlos Lpez Estrada, who injects this drama about class and race issues with the nerv ..
Fw Weekly
5.0
And Rafael Casal makes Miles fascinating bottled up, angry and confused, a light haired white native who looks like the citys newest residents, when h ..
Datebook Sfchronicle
3.8
Still, its hard to remember a recent movie that so powerfully distilled social issues into a single relationship.
Ap News
4.4
Of course, thats not to oversell the works, particularly Urban Legend.
Film Frenzy
4.5
A funny and relevant new Oakland set buddy dramedy opening today about two friends, one white, one black.
Sf Examiner
3.8
That it feels as authentic and well honed as it does is a testament to its creative talents innate familiarity and love for this city, and deeper unde ..
Am Ny
4.5
The films break out performance belongs to Cascal. Miles emotions carry an electric charge that he cant control, and he pairs them with high voltage t ..
Metro Active
4.0
Feels authentic. Perhaps its because of the warm camaraderie between Diggs and Casal or perhaps its because of the sense of nuance given to large scal ..
Richard Crouse
2.0
An explosive racial comedy ... saved by the sheer magnetism of Daveed Diggs personality and the righteous anger of his character.
Crooked Marquee
5.0
Things always look different depending on your perspective and by challenging all kinds of stereotypes, the film becomes an even more provocative work ..
Screen Zealots
4.5
But Miles, who suffers from severe testosterone poisoning, is Collins oldest, most loyal friend, isnt he Blindspotting wastes no time and no words.
Kdhx
4.5
We arent sure whether he will actually pull the trigger, or whether hes just trying to scare the man.
The Week
4.5
Has some sharp and sometimes incendiary political points to make, but does so in a way that isnt smug or preachy. A major work.
Splice Today
4.5
The ideas are big and the creativity invigorating, with stories of transformation that are specific to Oakland yet universally resonant.
L.A. Biz
4.5
They arent superfluous in any way and dont overextend their moments on screen.
FlickDirect
5.0
An undeniably important movie, Blindspotting steers away from the safe zone and delivers an impressively executed script. .
4.5
Intense performances shine the spotlight on race, poverty, police shootings, guns, education and more current issues in a well paced, well placed, dar ..
Movies and Shakers
4.4
Its as fresh and alive as any big city, a movie you dont just watch but breathe in.
Movie Cricket
4.5
His cantankerous buddy Miles (Rafael Casal) has not done prison time, and thats a miracle as his big mouth writes checks his fists cant cash.
Dwight Brown Ink
4.5
I hope this makes people understand its not as simple as if youve done nothing wrong, what do you have to hide The term blindspotting is the films the ..
Monsters And Critics
3.5
He doesnt milk the drama of the script; he doesnt allow Collin to wallow in his hardships.
Film Monthly
2.0
Blindspotting is filled with passionate intentions, but debuting director Carlos Lpez Estrada doesnt know much about restraint.
Worldo Free L
5.0
Nevertheless, within the script, even at Miless most thoughtful, hes shortsighted.
812 Film Reviews
5.0
Gripping, authentic, tense, uproarious and strong, Blindspotting is a superb achievement.
What I Watched Tonight
4.0
Its the future figuratively erasing the past through culinary delights as age old prejudices literally erase a young mans future.
Jaredmobarak
4.5
The title is indicative of the films goal; to show us our cultural blind spots by placing us in the shoes of another. In that way, Blindspotting, the ..
Houston Press
4.5
Photo: Sundance Institute Rounding out the main characters are Janina Gavankar as Val, Collins ex girlfriend, who hes trying to have a good friendship ..
idobi.com
4.5
This a post modernist Taxi Driver thats much better than that slightly glib descriptor suggests.
Arts Fuse
4.5
In the form of a delirious bromance, where the digressions are numerous, never loses the thread of his plot, until an apotheosis of final sequences.
Cocalecas
2.0
Its in this tension of hyper reality that Blindspotting lives, saying as much as they can as fast as they can... showing you, per the title, that what ..
My States Man
4.5
Its dialogue is whats most brilliant about Blindspotting. Casal and Diggs use raps and rhymes interspersed with traditional discourse. Its not a strai ..
Shadow And Act
4.4
Thus, their basement showdown rings false, but thankfully, the underlying message is powerful enough that it doesnt torpedo the movie.
Wtop
5.0
The film uses its buddy duo comedy to provide seething socio cultural political commentary through a combination of wit and seriousness.
VultureHound
3.8
First time director Carlos Lpez Estrada keeps the tensions taut, and although the mix of comedy and drama doesnt always work, Diggs charisma goes a lo ..
Ohio
4.5
punctuates Blindspotting with the well timed syncopations of an impassioned rap performance, finding grooves in which to place the collective anger an ..
The Lonely Film Critic
1.5
A candid, and occasionally humorous, look at the systematic oppression of the disenfranchised residents of Oakland, CA.
Hammer To Nail
4.5
Painful to watch, at times, it is also very, very funny and a work of gloriously intelligent cinema.
Hammer To Nail
4.5
It doesnt really matter, though, because Christopher McQuarrie with his direction (more than his screenplay) has injected Fallout with enough technica ..
Stabroek News
5.0
Inveterate rhymers, Miles and Collin cant help improvising sly verses just walking down the street together, observing life. (
Good Times
4.4
The performances coming from Diggs and Casal are simply a level above any other Ive seen this year.
We Boughta Blog
4.5
With the vibrancy and kineticism similar to the recent Dope, but a simmering righteous anger evoking a young Spike Lee, Blindspotting... is primed to ..
4.5
Funnier than I expected. More ambitious than I expected. A lot deeper than I expected. BLINDSPOTTING refuses to narrow its scope and is messier and st ..
Comicsverse
4.5
This is Carlos Lpez Estradas first outing as a feature film director.
Awards Daily
5.0
Blindspottings searing exploration of hot button issues as race, class and police brutality in such confrontational fashion makes for a thought provok ..
Kam Williams
3.5
Tonally, its a messy film, mixing a variety of styles (not always successfully) and alternating bold invention with hoary tropes, cheap shots, and unn ..
The Arts St L
4.5
Ultimately, Blindspotting is a far more powerful film that leaves a deep impact on the viewer, and it doesnt take costly Hamilton tickets to realize t ..
Tracking Board
4.5
However, Its a compelling piece of social commentary and a felicitous reminder of the world were now living in.
Backseat Mafia
5.0
Both an incredibly funny comedy and a poignant drama on the themes of identity, perception and society.
2.0
Blindspotting feels like a phenomenon, a film thats sure to not only engage with present audiences but for generations to come.
Dork Shelf
5.0
The story explodes on screen and it is hard not to feel its effects.
MovieJawn
4.0
I really liked this. The third act is a little wonky...but its also an hour and a half, very tight, and something new.
Podomatic
1.5
To add insult to injury, Blindspotting, a portrait of Oakland thats too enamored of itself, ends in lazy buddy movie fashion. It appears to let its pr ..
Miamiartzine
4.5
Blindspotting is a film about gentrification that never stops screwing with its audience.
The Undefeated
5.0
Blindspotting is a triumph of a film that mixes insightful social commentary with a buddy comedy and is also not afraid to dip into more serious mater ..
The Movie Sleuth
3.8
A cathartic battle cry against police brutality and gentrification, and a sensitive, nuanced unpacking of race and identity
Arca Max
1.5
Its a warm, funny, lively film thats Van Sants best since Milk a decade ago.
48 Hills
4.5
Its intense and remarkably charming and under Carlos Lopez Estradas its worth watchingtwice.
Amsterdam News
4.5
Blindspotting is a film audiences will be deconstructing for years to come. Its a film that wears its contemporary bent on its sleeve while simultaneo ..
Cc2K Online
4.5
Not only did the acting impress me, but the story and themes present throughout were incredibly relevant.
Hannahhoolihan
5.0
Blindspotting explores and articulates numerous issues which feel particularly relevant in todays sociopolitical climate, while also serving as a love ..
Spoiler TV
4.8
The combination of the rhythmic script, the bumping soundtrack, and the stylish direction recall the early work of Spike Lee.
Next Projection
4.8
The combination of the rhythmic script, the bumping soundtrack, and the stylish direction recall the early work of Spike Lee.
Next Projection
4.4
Blindspotting is raw, passionate and honest in its examination of... how things can look completely different depending on a persons perspective.
5.0
What Paul Haggis tried to do with CRASH, BLINDSPOTTING does, putting the Best Picture winner to shame while doing it.
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