The Best of Enemies
(2019)Oscar nominee Taraji P Henson (Hidden Figures) is Ann Atwater, fighting for school integration in 1971 Durham, North Carolina in this true story drama. Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) co-stars as a local Ku Klux Klan leader, arguing to keep segregation in place.
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Directed by Robin Bissell (feature debut)
Starring Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley, Bruce McGill, Nick Searcy, John Gallagher Jr., Babou Ceesay
Written by Robin Bissell (based on the book by Osha Gray Davidson)
Produced by Tobey Maguire, Danny Strong, Matt Berenson, Fred Bernstein, Dominique Telson, Matthew Plouffe
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[W]hile 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. Full Review
No doubt the world needs more paeans to tolerance, but movies as ineffectual as "The Best of Enemies" feel profoundly inadequate to the task. Full Review
A rock-solid movie: squarely deliberate, a little long and predictable, but honest and thoughtful enough, precise in its period and locale, with very strong performances. Full Review
The political moral of the movie is that change happens when the oppressed are nice to their oppressors. Full Review
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