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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAny failure to expand into cinema's possibilities is overshadowed by the uniformly strong performances in a four-person cast led by an excellent Kerry Washington.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreAmerican Son never quite lapses into terrible, but as with a play that needs another week of out of town tryouts, it “never gets on its feet,” either.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe overly finished language and theatrical intensity levels that might be potently effective onstage lose any pretense of naturalism under the camera’s unblinking gaze.
- At some point you’re tempted to stop following the narrative and start keeping score between husband and wife. It’s a good debate. It just isn’t much of a movie.
- 38RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAll these “what incredible irony!” moments are designed to…well, I’m not quite sure. The movie’s final line, an appropriation of the dying words of a black man killed by police, is an exploitative and cheap reversal that legitimately addresses precisely nothing.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt’s a deafening misfire, like the most unbearable, unwatchable daytime TV soap filled with the most awful self-conscious hamminess, parodic emoting and pointless shouting-at-each-other acting.