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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 04 Apr 2019

This movie isn’t just tone-deaf, it’s ass backwards…

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By Greatmartin (455) on 04 Apr 2019

Last year we had the best picture Oscar winner Green Book which was a 'feel good' movie about the relationship between a white man and a black…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 03 Apr 2019

Bissell has made a film where the casting isn’t the only thing that’s “on-the-nose.” The message, where the film’s sympathies lie…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Apr 2019

The movie also benefits from the presence of Anne Heche as Ellis’ wife. Heche doesn’t say much, but she conveys a lot…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 Apr 2019

It’s a surprise and a small wonder, then, when The Best of Enemies starts getting good and pretty much stays that way to the end…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Apr 2019

The Best of Enemies while not nearly as good as “Green Book,” is a rock-solid movie: squarely deliberate, a little long and predictable,…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 03 Apr 2019

Robin Bissell’s The Best of Enemies may not be some kind of game-changing corrective to all the retrograde films about race in America (we’re…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 03 Apr 2019

While much of Bissell’s film is poignantly rendered, especially the spirited lead performances by Taraji P…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Apr 2019

The Best of Enemies is perhaps the first account of the United States’s traumatic racial history that could be adapted into a sitcom…

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By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 03 Apr 2019

While it lacks the ambition to turn its obvious plot into a film that feels new, it also avoids the pitfalls of moral smugness and stereotyping…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2019

Bissell’s fudging of the facts (which includes completely making up the reasons behind the charrette) doesn’t create a story that’s more…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Apr 2019

The Best of Enemies tries to remind us that simple solutions might exist if we could open our minds, but it undercuts itself by shortchanging…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Apr 2019

The changes Bissell makes to the story are overly contrived, and the writing and editing are shaky…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Apr 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…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Apr 2019

Leads Henson (barely recognizable under a mountain of Tyler Perry-esque practical makeup) and Rockwell turn in top-notch, emotion-laden performances,…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Apr 2019

Rather than illuminating the politics of the present by examining the struggles of the past, Bissell lurches from folksy comedy to clattering…

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