The Best of Enemies

Les tensions sont créées subtilement, sans sensationnalisme ni propos superficiels, évitant pour ainsi dire le côté misérabiliste.

Dans les rôles principaux, les habités Taraji P. Henson et Sam Rockwell confèrent humanité et sensibilité à des figures archétypiques.

'Bullshit!" I wrote in huge letters in my notebook. I was being too kind.

Sam Rockwell's Klansman, who befriends Henson's activist, is afforded most of the character depth in first-timer Robin Bissell's script.

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.

That lapse is disappointing and limiting, but The Best of Enemies works well enough on its own modest terms. 

With impressive acting firepower, and a positive message of unity for the common good, The Best of Enemies shines as an example of historical storytelling that anyone can identify with.