Southside With You is the falling-in-love movie most films handle with a pop song and a montage, smart, touching, lovely.

| Nov 4, 2021

[Southside with you] should make stars of [Parker] Sawyers and [Tika] Sumpter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2017

Sumpter and Sawyers have beautifully captured all the smallest details about the larger than life, real-life characters they portray.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 21, 2017

The duo make for good company but the courtship can only just sustain the weight of history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2016

[Southside With You] puts on a screen, for everyone to see, a romantic courtship between educated African Americans, the kind that Hollywood rarely depicts.

| Nov 8, 2016

A truly horrible 온라인카지노추천 movie premise -- let's re-create the first romantic date between Barack and Michelle Obama -- is given serious intellectual and emotional heft in the writer-director Richard Tanne's feature debut

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2016

Decent performances notwithstanding, there's a cloying quality to some of the scenes that turns the romance of the president and his first lady into something akin to a magazine photo story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2016

As a multi-faceted character study - of a couple, a nation, a racial identity - there are surprises around every corner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2016

A gently likable, Linklaterish movie that ideologically conflates romantic excitement with progressive idealism, bringing in some unexpected subtleties.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2016

Even if you didn't know what comes next, this story of the first days of the Obamas would still seduce as a sweet, smart romance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2016

Stumbles occasionally, but still manages to cast a hushed spell that never entirely fades.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2016

A small, successful sketch of now-great lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2016

In the closing months of their terms, Bush got a 'Nixon,' and Obama got a 'Before Sunrise.'

| Sep 3, 2016

Southside With You showcases a city as photogenic, dynamic, and charming as the lovers themselves.

| Sep 1, 2016

This is a small-scale romance with small ambitions but fairly big heart.

| Aug 31, 2016

President Obama's fans and haters alike will find something to enjoy in this slightly stilted yet oddly fascinating account of the Harvard law student's first date with Michelle Robinson, the woman who would eventually become his wife.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2016

People need to see Southside with You. It's a wonderful romance. Wistful, ebullient, full of energy and life, Tanne's movie crosses races and political boundaries.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2016

Southside with You stumbles like so many could-be great biopics, by being overly reverential to its subjects.

| Aug 26, 2016

A gentle, rose-tinted piece of political nostalgia-one that glances at the divisions in American society, but still casts a optimistic view toward whatever's next.

| Aug 26, 2016

Though it's barely 84 minutes long, this buoyant yet reflective movie captures the ever-shifting mood of a daylong encounter that changed both its protagonists' lives.

| Aug 26, 2016