The Best of Enemies (2019)
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Critic Consensus: The Best of Enemies has the best of intentions, but they're derailed by a problematic perspective and a disappointing lack of insight.
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as Ann Atwater
as Claiborne Paul Ellis
as Bill Riddick
as Mary Ellis
as Floyd Kelly
as Garland Keith
as Lee Trombley
as Councilman Carvie Oldham
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It's predictable and conventional, but it has some powerful moments.
But like Peter Farrelly's road-trip dramedy, Bissell's film stretches and flattens history in ways big and small.
Comparisons will inevitably be made to Green Book for its upbeat vibe, but in terms of serious craft and admirable aspirations, this film is more in the league of 42 and Selma.
It's impossible to ignore that the film is yet another Hollywood narrative of racial reconciliation centered on a white protagonist-and worse, it's one that seems much more interested in the Klan's white targets than its black ones.
The film travels such an obvious path and falls into such a predictable rhythm, it doesn't quite carry the emotional resonance such a powerful true-life story should convey.
Bissell, from the start, is interested in perpetrators, not victims, in illustrations of plot points, not curiosity about context.
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