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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 08 Aug 2013

Blood may not be wholly original, but it is effective…

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By Alexander Lowe (30) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 07 Aug 2013

Despite excellent performances throughout, Blood's forced plot and incomplete story causes it to fall far short of its potential…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 07 Aug 2013

Suffers from a crippling lack of back story and characters whose relationships are fraught with unexplained complexity…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 07 Aug 2013

While hardly reinventing the wheel, Blood works best as a tone poem, with unspoken passages detailing a hard life…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 07 Aug 2013

Blood is just good enough to make me wish it was better. While occasionally effective, it is ultimately hindered by some incomplete storytelling…

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By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Aug 2013

Blood feels perfunctory, needing something besides fussy plotting to jolt it to life…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Aug 2013

A tight, raincoats-flapping-in-the-wind crime drama…

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By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Aug 2013

Themes of family ties, obsession, and morality, so dramatically realized in Conviction, are gracelessly and shapelessly strewn together here…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 06 Aug 2013

There's powerful work here to savor while the story searches for ways to define its direction, keeping Blood convincing when it should rightfully…

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By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Aug 2013

The characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Aug 2013

That he [Nick Murphy] can't sustain the level of dramatic tension that Bill Gallagher's script requires (the movie is adapted from the BBC…

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By Josh D (471) on 29 Jul 2013

I found this an impressive and tense thriller, with exceptional acting and believable characters…

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By Anna C (930) on 23 Jul 2013

Four of my favourite english actors in a cop story not too original but pretty good to follow…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 11 Jul 2013

All four of the main performances are so strong that they deserve more space to develop and intertwine…

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By Kurt B (457) on 06 Jul 2013

Murphy revisits Crime and Punishement and we all suffer for it…

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By Tim A (245) on 12 Jun 2013

TV police dramas pop up every 2 minutes in the release schedules, most of which are predictable, full of cliches and copies of each other…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 02 Jun 2013

It's clunky stuff, full of dreary dialogue that Bettany, Graham and Mark Strong ... do their best to transcend, but without much success…

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By David Aldridge (158) for Radio Times (2,421) on 02 Jun 2013

An intriguing tale of machismo and crazy, mixed-up morality, but it's hard to escape the feeling that it was perhaps better suited to the small…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 01 Jun 2013

In the end the plot lacks credibility and fails to support the tragic power and the moral weight…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 30 May 2013

Blood doesn't always ring true but there is enough meat in the story and merit in the cast to make it worth watching…

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