Release dates
July 2, 2019
71 months agoVOD / Blu-ray / DVD
Released
The Best of Enemies release date
The movie The Best of Enemies is already released on Cinema, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 11 reviews, The Best of Enemies gets an average review score of 52
It’s a surprise and a small wonder, then, when The Best of Enemies starts getting good and pretty much stays that way to the end. This may be an apples/oranges comparison, but: For a true-ish story of racial animus, bone-deep prejudice and the American South in the civil rights era, it’s a better, more nuanced and more interesting feel-good movie than a certain, recent, less interesting Best Picture Academy Award winner we could mention.
2191d ago
As an activist and a Ku Klux Klan leader who co-chair a community powwow in Durham in 1971, Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell anchor a rock-solid liberal message movie that's strange enough to be true.
2191d ago
The Best Of Enemies is another feel-good movie about those darn racists
2191d ago
Bissell, who also scripted the film, proves to be a dab hand with dialogue, resulting in some powerhouse monologues on the subjects of race and class in Durham ’71. Previously a producer (The Hunger Games), he infuses The Best of Enemies with a certain verbal panache that adds much to the movie’s sense of place, time, and history.
2191d ago
“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 season’s “Green Book.”
2191d ago
Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell clash as a civil rights activist and a Klansman in a drama set in 1971.
2191d ago
As source material goes, this one’s a doozy: A high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan and a fiery civil rights activist became allies during a fight for school integration in the early 1970s. As actor pairings go, you couldn’t hope for better than Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and nominee Taraji P. Henson. So why is “The Best of Enemies” such a slog?
2191d ago
Sam Rockwell’s Klansman, who befriends Henson’s activist, is afforded most of the character depth in first-timer Robin Bissell’s script
2191d ago
Rather than illuminating the politics of the present by examining the struggles of the past, Bissell lurches from folksy comedy to clattering melodrama, producing the opposite of enlightenment. To quote an old protest song: When will we ever learn?
2191d ago
Robin Bissel’s film may be based on a true story, but it more accurately resembles an all-too-familiar Hollywood tall tale.
2191d ago
“The Best of Enemies” is about outspoken Black activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) clashing over school integration with C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), the Exalted Cyclops of the North Carolina Branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
2191d ago