The film is driven by two equally big yet equally fabulous performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The Hollywood studio system has taken civil rights films in the direction of the exploitation genre, which doesn’t mean The Best of Enemies is bad medicine; it just makes it a placebo.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 18, 2022

The arcs are predictable and the tone never serious enough for the subject matter at hand.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 4, 2022

The Best of Enemies has good intentions, and some potent things to say, but its novice direction and limited perspective fail it from becoming anything other than this seasons Green Book.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 10, 2022

A full realization of integration still has a long way to go even to this day, and apparently, so do the movies.

| Original Score: 2 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

Henson and Rockwell, no strangers to portraying their respective characters, find depth and sincerity in their characters and Ann Heche who plays Ellis' wife, gives a great performance.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 18, 2020

Instead of three-dimensional characters, The Best of Enemies gives us two wax figures in a cardboard town, and they're all at the mercy of Bissel as a writer/director.

| Jan 17, 2020

Another movie where black people have the burden of making racists understand they are human beings.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 10, 2020

You know how this movie will play out, but it's educational.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

It's predictable and conventional, but it has some powerful moments.

| Sep 27, 2019

[It's] staggeringly lengthy and even though this is a true story, the film lacks imagination.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2019

At a horrific point in U.S. history, The Best of Enemies is accomplished enough to allow its humanist message to shine through without any interference.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2019

By acutely observing the process, by letting each compromise sink in for the character, and for us, it becomes a kind of catharsis for the characters as they find their way, and for us to hope for the better angels of everyone's nature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2019

Takes a micro rather than a macro look at racism in America, (but) avoids many of the pitfalls that Green Book fell into.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2019

While it too often lacks the courage to follow through on its convictions, the film is stirring and heartfelt enough to get the point across.

| May 10, 2019

All we get of the charrette in the film is a briskly paced montage set to music of black and white participants talking, eating meals, debating, drafting proposals, and voting. We barely hear any of their actual conversations.

| May 3, 2019

"The Best of Enemies" not only has two of my favorite actors in the lead roles, but their performances are spot-on without being caricatures.

| Apr 26, 2019

And while the actors do good work, nobody is really stepping outside their comfort zone here. Neither will white audiences be pushed anywhere they don't want to go, or haven't been already.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 14, 2019

Enough of the film works -- even when it's as predictable as they come -- that you'll likely be okay going along for the ride down this familiar path. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, etc. - also Available)

| Apr 12, 2019

By the end, it really pulled off what it needed to, and had that emotional punch.

| Apr 12, 2019