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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThis move is both redundant and counterproductive because it weakens one of the screenplay’s central conceits — the way Bettany’s guilt is shared and experienced by other characters.
- 67The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonA smart, well-acted and well-directed picture that adds up to a little more than the sum of its parts.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayAll four of the main performances are so strong that they deserve more space to develop and intertwine. Instead, at times, Blood plays like one long “previously on” montage for the series that inspired it.
- 60Total FilmTotal FilmIt’s a crisp, cold little thriller with a real sense of the noose tightening around otherwise unremarkable lives.
- While hardly reinventing the wheel, Blood works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life.
- 40The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesOriginality may be out of Blood's jurisdiction, but it manages to plod on, dutifully walking a tired old beat.
- 40Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamBlood wants to be a Greek tragedy about family loyalties, guilt, and the fall of a dynasty, but the characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled police procedural.
- 30Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenLos Angeles TimesMark OlsenBlood feels perfunctory, needing something besides fussy plotting to jolt it to life.
- 25Slant MagazineDrew HuntSlant MagazineDrew HuntThemes of family ties, obsession, and morality, so dramatically realized in Conviction, are gracelessly and shapelessly strewn together here.