I’ll Be Your Mirror

It’s as emotionally honest as it is engaging.

There’s an implication that repressed emotions are simmering beneath the mundane, but that doesn’t always come across.

Gray and his leads ably demonstrate how quotidian encounters and minute actions speak volumes. What’s missing is space for those little details to fully speak.

At the core of it all, Juri’s performance is a marvel of coiled emotion and wide-eyed wonder at the world around her. It’s just that the film around her does a disservice to that performance.

You come to Blood for its aura of spiritual sustenance, only to leave it feeling curiously alienated and undernourished.

Bradley Rust Gray’s blood is a beautifully observed film that never arrives at its desired emotional destination.