The Best of Enemies
STXfilms | Release Date: April 5, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
9
Negative:
5
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The Seattle TimesKatie WalshApr 4, 2019
The changes Bissell makes to the story are overly contrived, and the writing and editing are shaky. Most egregiously, Ann’s perspective is completely underwritten, without any personal history and the single humanizing factor of one daughter, who appears only briefly. Read full review
30
Screen DailyTim GriersonApr 5, 2019
No doubt the world needs more paeans to tolerance, but movies as ineffectual as The Best Of Enemies feel profoundly inadequate to the task. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDerek SmithApr 4, 2019
The Best of Enemies may be based on a true story, but in so stubbornly turning the spotlight away from Atwater and the radical, grind-it-out community activism that took on the racism that Ellis helped to foster as a segregationist, it more accurately resembles an all-too-familiar Hollywood tall tale. Read full review
20
SlateInkoo KangApr 6, 2019
The key, according to the film, is dialogue and altruism — namely, black overtures to white hate. The onus is as misplaced as the movie’s sympathies. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonApr 5, 2019
This movie isn’t just tone-deaf, it’s ass backwards. Read full review
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