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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Screen RantGraeme GuttmannScreen RantGraeme GuttmannDespite sturdy performances, Without Blood doesn’t fully come together.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeDespite bursts of intelligence, especially when it comes to conveying the fractured quality of trauma narratives, Without Blood’s vagueness ends up blunting many of its lessons.
- 50IndieWireVikram MurthiIndieWireVikram MurthiThe sincerity of Without Blood can’t be denied, but alas, the road to mediocrity is paved with good intentions.
- 42The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe result is a melodrama where any sense of tension fades the longer Nina and Tito speak.
- 40TheWrapChase HutchinsonTheWrapChase HutchinsonFor every moment where it seems like it’s getting somewhere more thoughtful, it will dance away into something else, lacking focus even as it remains faithful to the rather short source material.
- 40The GuardianRadheyan SimonpillaiThe GuardianRadheyan SimonpillaiJolie also lays it on thick stylistically, as if compensating for a hollowness at her lavish, sepia-toned film’s core.
- 35The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerBy choosing to reside in abstraction, it imparts only generic and empty truths.