USA Today - Claudia Puig
: ...a brilliant idea that seems to lack the vision to be great.
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C  
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Bill White
: The cast does excellent ensemble work...
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B+
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle
: ...Blindness is for otic tastes, for people who like being forced to go places they'd never go to on their own.
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B  
ReelViews - James Berardinelli
: ...a fascinating intellectual exercise...
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B  
New York Post - Kyle Smith
: I kept hoping the meaning would click into place, but it never quite did.
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B-
filmcritic.com - Chris Cabin
: ...a clunky, clattering, ever-collapsing film of bludgeoning rhetoric.
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D+
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum
: As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like pizzazz.
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C+
Chicago Tribune - Geoff Berkshire
: ...an art film dud...
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D+
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
: ...one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen.
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