Wise Blood (1979)
"An American Masterpiece!"
ThumbScore
👍 72%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 86%
(RT: 88%, MC: 84) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Dan Shor as Enoch Emory
Mary Nell Santacroce as Landlady
Is Wise Blood good?
Most people think so. 72% audience score, estimated from 115 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 86%.
Overview
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church. Wikipedia ↗
