Southside with You's reviews
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The movie holds to a steady but too-straight rhythm, hitting all the expected romantic-drama beats, right down to the occasional argument that threatens to stop the date cold. But Southside With You is also winningly sweet and earnest, and refreshingly frank about the problems that minorities face when they try to get ahead in a culture dominated by white males.
Entertainment Weekly
'Southside' doesn?t hang on epiphanies; instead, it delivers something more modest: a tender, unrushed love story.
The Guardian
"There?s politics, prejudice, romance and a community meeting to discuss broken faucets in this coshing yet charming take on the (...) first date of Barack and Michelle Obama."
Variety
"Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers are terrifically cast as younger versions of Michelle and Barack Obama in Richard Tanne's disarmingly romantic walkabout."
Indiewire
"There?d be no movie here if not for who the characters are; but even if Tanne had changed their names, 'Southside With You' will still be a charmer. "
The Hollywood Reporter
"(A) perceptive, intelligent, entirely credible imagining of how these two very bright young lawyers broke the ice during a long afternoon and evening in Chicago in 1989."