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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThough the movie trails off unsatisfyingly, it raises intriguing and candid, if unanswerable, questions about race relations and political correctness.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyIn style and content, Sarah Jessica Parker starrer is the kind of earnest, talky, modestly scaled social-issue pic that seems predestined for the smallscreen.
- Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners.
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisDespite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumA painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWhat seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness.
- 20The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenLess a movie than an essay.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceApproaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing.
- 0New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIf freshman film students were assigned to make a movie on race relations, this contrived attempt is probably what they'd come up with.
- 0Washington PostWashington PostThe movie suffers most of all from a feeling of creeping irrelevance, as if it's being delivered well after its sell-by date.