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Apr 5, 2019 · “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.
Apr 3, 2019 · Unlike other movies on similar subjects, “The Best of Enemies” doesn’t treat racial prejudice as a freakish, isolated pathology, but rather as an unremarkable, omnipresent fact of life....
- Robin Bissell
- A.O. Scott
- 133 min
Apr 5, 2019 · The Best of Enemies has the best of intentions, but they're derailed by a problematic perspective and a disappointing lack of insight. Read Critics Reviews
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- Robin Bissell
- PG-13
- Taraji P. Henson
Apr 4, 2019 · Reviews. Apr 4, 2019 9:00am PT. Film Review: ‘The Best of Enemies’. As an activist and a Ku Klux Klan leader who co-chair a community powwow in Durham in 1971, Taraji P. Henson and...
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Slated for US release on April 5, this STXfilms offering will hope to ride a wave of recent racial dramas that have been commercially successful, including Green Book ($304 million worldwide currently) and The Upside ($120 million). Henson and Rockwell have marquee appeal, and The Best Of Enemies could attract adult crowds uninterested in Dumbo or ...
Set in 1971 in Durham, North Carolina, the film stars Henson as Ann Atwater, a single mom fighting to improve the lives of African-Americans in her community. Opposed to racial equality is C.P. Ellis (Rockwell), the president of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, who views blacks as inferior. But after a black school suffers serious fire damage...
This little-known real-life story is reduced to cardboard drama by first-time feature filmmaker Bissell, a producer or executive producer on movies such as Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games. Throughout, The Best Of Enemies aches with sincerity as we witness these two strong-willed individuals eventually come to respect one another, but the process pr...
Henson plays her character, whos nicknamed Roughhouse Annie for her battering-ram demeanour, in only one gear. Although its amusing to see the Oscar-nominated actress spit venom at the racists around her, Atwaters lack of gradation gets tiresome.
On a more macro level, however, The Best Of Enemies is exhausting because of its tired storytelling devices especially its supposition that all a racist white man needs to become a better human being is to spend some time with a black person. Even if the true story played out exactly as Bissells film suggests, theres a stultifying, patronising att...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies. The film is driven by two equally big yet equally fabulous performances. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 |...
Apr 5, 2019 · The Best of Enemies: Directed by Robin Bissell. With Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche. Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
