It's a small, enjoyable tale of redemption that hosts a pair of fine performances.

| Feb 11, 2022

Lucas Black is terrific as the young golfer, while Duvall reminds everyone that he remains one of the best actors working today.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 22, 2020

This is a bland, uninspiring, uninteresting story that hammers its message so blatantly and so often that it's surprising you can come out of it without a headache.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 5, 2020

Seven Days in Utopia possesses a spiritual sincerity that's impossible to shrug off as mere zealotry.

| Original Score: B+ | May 1, 2020

This religious fantasy has higher production values and a classier cast than similar productions, but little interest in telling a story that goes beyond its Christian message.

| May 1, 2020

A nice movie that means well and won't hurt anybody.

Full Review | May 1, 2020

It's well acted, to be sure, with Lucas Black and Robert Duvall convincingly selling most of the down-home hokum, but the movie is just too lazy and obvious about its religious agenda to be taken seriously.

| May 1, 2020

If the combination of Christian bromides and golf tips strikes you as a recipe for boredom, stay away.

| May 1, 2020

What do Robert Duvall and Melissa Leo have in common? They both have won an Oscar and they both cashed a paycheck for the fake virtuous hack job called "Seven Days in Utopia."

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 1, 2020

The film is straightforward, happily willing to cite God as the inspiration for its characters, also able to assemble a story that while perhaps short of divinely creative intervention, is easy to like and enjoy.

| May 1, 2020

[Robert] Duvall's performance is almost serene, a master class in screen acting, and his costars are clearly drinking from Duvall's well of inspiration.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2020

The cast is strong and will probably save the film with the general audience because they don't overact; they keep it simple and real.

| Jun 29, 2017

The message that winning isn't the most important aspect of life, as well as the chemistry between lead actors Robert Duvall and Lucas Black, make the film very enjoyable.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 2, 2013

Because of Dad and Deb, I could not detest this strange, good-hearted, sloppy movie. Dad discovered a passion for golf late in life. My dear friend Deb, too, speaks often about the challenge of the game, which has touched her profoundly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 22, 2011

Prosaic doesn't begin to describe a Christian propaganda fantasy movie so out of touch with reality and cinema that it comes across as an insult to your intelligence.

| Original Score: D | Sep 14, 2011

A faith-based earnest little picture sponsored largely by Callaway Golf that takes seriously the nonsense that golf is a metaphor for life. No, it's a metaphor for golf.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 9, 2011

Supporting bits, like the saintly love interest played by Deborah Ann Woll, function more as archetypes than flesh-and-blood characters in a lively story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2011

A surprisingly ineffective cast delivers a muddled religious message

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 6, 2011

It's not challenging on the spiritual level nor is it particularly good.

| Sep 5, 2011

Seven Days in Utopia, of course, like most sports movies with higher aspirations, tries to position itself as more than a sports movie. And lo and behold, it is -- sort of.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 3, 2011