The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

This move is both redundant and counterproductive because it weakens one of the screenplay’s central conceits — the way Bettany’s guilt is shared and experienced by other characters.

The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton

A smart, well-acted and well-directed picture that adds up to a little more than the sum of its parts.

Total Film

It’s a crisp, cold little thriller with a real sense of the noose tightening around otherwise unremarkable lives.

New York Daily News

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

The Dissolve by Noel Murray

All four of the main performances are so strong that they deserve more space to develop and intertwine. Instead, at times, Blood plays like one long “previously on” montage for the series that inspired it.

Village Voice by Chris Packham

Blood wants to be a Greek tragedy about family loyalties, guilt, and the fall of a dynasty, but the characters never manage to connect with one another, separated by gulfs of melodramatic angst and the plot demands of a boringly unspooled police procedural.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

The film’s family-saga pretensions and bombastically overdone characterisation keep hobbling its better elements.

The Guardian by Henry Barnes

Originality may be out of Blood's jurisdiction, but it manages to plod on, dutifully walking a tired old beat.

Los Angeles Times by Mark Olsen

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

Slant Magazine by Drew Hunt

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