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Blackbird
2020 1h 38m R
Drama
6.6
64%
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A terminally ill mother arranges to bring her family together one last time before she dies. A remake of the 2014 Danish film 'Silent Heart'.
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Directed By
Roger Michell
Written By
Christian Torpe
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Millennium Media
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Cast of Blackbird
Susan Sarandon
Lily
Kate Winslet
Jennifer
Mia Wasikowska
Anna
Sam Neill
Tom
Lindsay Duncan
Liz
Rainn Wilson
Michael
Bex Taylor-Klaus
Chris
Anson Boon
Jonathan
Blackbird Reviews
indieWire
Kate Erbland
Michell, screenwriter Christian Torpe...and a talented cast strike a delicate balance in a domestic drama that ably combines heartbreak and humor.
AV Club
Jesse Hassenger
[A]s superficially sad as the story is willing to get, Blackbird would rather stir up melodrama than produce something genuinely confrontational.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Although Blackbird is effective as a buzz-kill and features a few nicely choreographed scenes, too little about the film feels like real life and who wants a fantasy film that's such a relentless downer?
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A glancing treatment of a difficult subject.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Hewitt
Turns out you can make a silk purse from a sow's ear, if "you" are Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
An exceedingly tender and intelligent film about the beauty and grace to be found in death.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The moving melodrama is bolstered by an outstanding cast...
RogerEbert.com
Nell Minow
The film never recovers from a contrived and distracting plot development in the last third that highlights the artificiality of its structure.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Someone nudges this in memoriam in the ribs and reminds it to be a melodrama, at which point a far more typical story of family feuding kicks in.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Everything felt too contrived, too scripted, to overly theatrical to resonate on a personal level.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
Considering the gravity of the subject matter, what's on view is surprisingly touching and disarming in the best ways.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Angie Han
It becomes really easy to care about these characters. Sam Neill was a real standout for me as the devoted husband who is trying to keep it together.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A right-to-die drama so inauthentic and maudlin that the terminal illness suffered by its central character is no more than a suction device for the audience's tears.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
The premise and performers yield some emotional moments, inadvertently heightened by recent events. Yet as a whole, the film never quite takes wing.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
While not all the notes in this film may work in harmony, it's the love in the story -- between the characters and in the actors' performances -- that holds the movie together.
The Victoria Advocate
Joe Friar
Michell dilutes the heavy subject matter by staying on the surface and never going too deep with these characters' conflicts. The film is rather upbeat despite its terminal illness theme.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
It works admirably well - at least to a point, at which some viewers may feel Torpe piles on one crisis too many. Nonetheless, this is a quality enterprise with numerous rewards for adult audiences...
The Playlist
Jason Bailey
We've seen enough movies about the familial woes of upper-middle-class white families, but if you're in the mood for one more, well, Blackbird has a lot to offer.
Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
There almost isn't a single shot in it where every member of the cast isn't Acting.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
...things turn from theatrical to downright histrionic.
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