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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Feb 2016

Airy and pleasant, a modest film that gets by on charm and aesthetics…

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By Crystal Bell (1) for MTV (492) on 02 Feb 2016

It's a lovely film about two charismatic people walking, talking and slowing falling in love over ice cream…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 02 Feb 2016

That's what makes Southside With You work, because it just boils down to two people trying to figure out life and each other…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 31 Jan 2016

The result makes you realize how few realistic and three-dimensional date movies have been made in an era of throbbing hook-up encounters and…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Jan 2016

Richard Tanne’s writing-directing debut deepens into a pointed, flowing conversation about the many challenges (and varieties) of African-American…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Jan 2016

The movie holds to a steady but too-straight rhythm, hitting all the expected romantic-drama beats, right down to the occasional argument that…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 31 Jan 2016

Though sometimes achingly on-the-nose in its attempts to foreshadow these characters’ destiny, Southside With You radiates enough wistful…

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By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 31 Jan 2016

On some level, this enterprise was doomed from conception…

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By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 29 Jan 2016

Southside with You is a rewarding bite-sized drama, rich with characters who we already know, but also don’t really know…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for Vox (725) on 29 Jan 2016

If you set aside the famous names and everything we know about these two characters' futures, what's left is a wonderfully crafted romance…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 28 Jan 2016

It deserves success. Moreover it should make stars of Sawyers and Sumpter…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Thrillist (209) on 27 Jan 2016

The JFK-ing of Obama ... it almost vindicates itself…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Guff.com (12) on 27 Jan 2016

Makes Barack a predator to begin with. He is determined to ignore her boundaries. Fortunately, I don't believe that part is true…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Guardian (4,584) on 25 Jan 2016

Southside With You uses our affection for the Obamas to add urgency in the otherwise simple script…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 25 Jan 2016

We just don't see this kind of thing here in America, but there's also never been a couple in the White House like Barack and Michelle Obama…

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By Kyle Buchanan (2) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 25 Jan 2016

Fortunately, Tanne didn't have to compromise at all with his two charismatic leads: Not only are they dead ringers for Barack and Michelle,…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 24 Jan 2016

A romantic, frustrated, compassionate, quietly moving film…

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