In this pretentious, preposterous allegory, an unnamed disease afflicts the unnamed residents of an unnamed city, all of which is too precious. The victims are left sightless, but they see white instead of black.

Eventually, "Blindness" becomes less oppressively boring, but by then the audience has already fled the theater, banging its head against the wall. And then the movie becomes relentlessly boring again.

By John Beifuss It sounds weird to say so, but I have what might be called an affection for movies about natural disasters, the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it.

By DUANE DUDEK People often are disappointed in, and rarely recognize, the books they love when they are made into movies. Reading is a private experience and films are a shared experience.

By MAL VINCENT "There are none so blind as those who cannot see." That's a quote from the Broadway play and movie "Butterflies Are Free." It was a comedy. The bit of truism holds in the case of "Blindness," but "Blindness" is most definitely not a comedy.