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  • 2020
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  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Lily (Susan Sarandon) and Paul (Sam Neill) summon their loved ones to their beach house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily and her daughters Jennifer ...

Directed By: Roger Michell

Written By: Christian Torpe

  • 2020
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Blackbird

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Lily (Susan Sarandon) and Paul (Sam Neill) summon their loved ones to their beach house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her long battle with ALS. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily and her daughters Jennifer ...

Directed By: Roger Michell

Written By: Christian Torpe

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
10 Reviews
33% Mixed
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11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
53
56% Positive
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33% Mixed
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11% Negative
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80
Oct 8, 2019
If Blackbird shows us anything it’s that no matter how carefully we plan, life resists perfection, right up to the end.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 8, 2019
"Blackbird" may be a tearjerker, but it’s also a reminder that there’s more to tears than tragedy, even in the midst of personal loss.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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62% Mixed
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Sep 21, 2020
The film can be over-wrought, manipulative, and by some standards, unfairly stages death as a backdrop for parading a rogue-gallery of family archetypes. And though I recognize the film’s flaws, I choose to let my cynicism slide.
By Thom Ernst FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 16, 2020
Director Roger Michell (“Venus,”Notting Hill”) cast this well and earns stellar on-the-nose performances from Sarandon, Wilson, Duncan and Wasikowska.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 18, 2020
The entire story takes place in and around a spectacular house with curiously sterile interiors that are more like the setting of a magazine ad for expensive liquor than a home real people live in. The bigger problem is that the world of the characters is not fully inhabited either.
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40
Sep 8, 2019
But as lovely as Blackbird can be, it’s never particularly insightful or compelling — for a film meant to celebrate life, the storytelling is curiously moribund.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 8, 2019
There almost isn't a single shot in it where every member of the cast isn't Acting ... The result is, at times, insufferably pleased with itself.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Busted Shark Productions, Eclectic Pictures, MEP Capital, Millennium Media, SF Studios
Release Date Sep 18, 2020
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Website https://blackbird.ayapro.ne.jp/
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Awards

Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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