Seven Days in Utopia
Utopia Pictures | Release Date: September 2, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
11
Negative:
9
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38
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezAug 31, 2011
God bless Robert Duvall. An American cinematic institution, our greatest living actor makes the fortune-cookie bromides of Matthew Dean Russell's Seven Days in Utopia sound like Yates. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenSep 1, 2011
A stultifying hybrid of athletic instruction film and Christian sermon. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovSep 1, 2011
For one thing, Seven Days in Utopia feels an awful lot like Victor Salva's 2006 New Age uplifter "Peaceful Warrior." That film at least had the appeal of watching Nick Nolte play Yoda, whereas here Duvall simply seems to be playing Duvall. Read full review
30
Boxoffice MagazineNick SchagerAug 30, 2011
A squishy Hallmark Channel-level melodrama that rarely bothers to mask its propagandistic intentions. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliSep 1, 2011
Until its final seconds, Seven Days in Utopia is just a piece of gee-whiz, G-rated, nicely shot evangelism outfitted as a golf movie. Then it cuts away at the pivotal moment that's normally the life's blood of inspirational sports dramas - and becomes something vastly more obnoxious. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasAug 31, 2011
Not a second of it is convincing - or compelling - but then the film is about "utopia," a blandly idealized place unblemished by hardship, malice, sin, or errant golf strokes. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 31, 2011
I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again. Read full review
20
Time OutAndrew SchenkerAug 30, 2011
Director Matt Russell shamelessly pitches woo to the already converted with an unholy barrage of heavy-handed flashbacks and phony Christian uplift. If any film ever needed a mulligan…. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisSep 1, 2011
The movie is terrible partly because it's badly written, directed, and conceived and partly because it lacks the necessarily thematic coherence to accomplish proselytism of any kind. Read full review
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