The script resorts to voiceover and exposition to join the narrative dots, sometimes clumsily, but Will's sensitive, likeable turn provides emotional ballast right up to the haunting climax.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2025

At its heart, this is a heartbreaking, emotional story about a young man trying to reconnect with his father and restore a sense of normalcy in his life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2024

As Rob, Jay Will brings an honesty and truth to his character’s place and time. He see the situations through Rob’s eyes and can understand why he does what he does.

| Original Score: A | Dec 6, 2024

Jay Will, who plays Rob Peace, is excellent in this.

| Sep 16, 2024

Overall, Rob Peace is a very powerful film that touches on the very real system injustices that are very much present in our everyday lives

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2024

The dialog and voiceover narration are so on-the-nose that it's impossible to miss the properly important themes here. Still, it's finely played by a terrific cast, and the final sequence finds some hope in a bleak tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2024

The movie takes shape as an uplifting multiplex entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2024

Never reaches its potential.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 3, 2024

Rob Peace is a riveting tale of perseverance and smarts with mesmerizing performances from Mary J. Blige, Jay Will and direcgtor/writer/producer actor Chiwetel Ejiofor

| Aug 30, 2024

In his follow-up to “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” Chiwetel Ejiofor makes noticeable improvements as a filmmaker through a real-life story that, while often unfocused, features piercing moments of dramatic and political engagement

| Aug 27, 2024

If anything, Rob Peace shows how the most compassionate and strongest among us often need the most support.

| Aug 26, 2024

Is reinforcing stereotypes the only storytelling possible? Rob Peace is bound by the patronization of black experience.

| Aug 23, 2024

The story exposes the structural racism, exemplified in botched legal and economic systems, that can overwhelmingly oppress a people.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 20, 2024

Chiwetel Ejiofor proves more earnest than skillful at bringing heartfelt complexity to another tale of whiz-kid promise and resourcefulness.

| Aug 19, 2024

Rob Peace leaves us with a great deal to contemplate and, more importantly, makes us feel profoundly invested in all that it has to show us.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 19, 2024

This is Ejiofor’s second film as a filmmaker, and “Rob Peace” is a satisfying throwback drama with deep conviction in honoring the fullness of a life of promise and peril.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2024

The power of the story is muted by the script.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 18, 2024

At a certain point, it then crumbles under the misguided ambition of touring viewers through every high and low of Rob Peace’s life

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 16, 2024

Minimum recco for a decent story that tried to encapsulate too many years of Peace's life. Director Ejiofor should have cast another actor in his role, his usual intensity was missing. While a new story for black film, it ultimately felt a bit choppy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2024

Despite some powerfully tragic true-life source material, this compassionate yet conventional biopic struggles to dig beneath the surface and distinguish itself.

| Aug 16, 2024