Critic Reviews

• Andy Webster, New York Times

  If you find the moral conversion of a militant lifelong bigot difficult to imagine, try the casting of the burly, fraying Mr. Sizemore as a romantic leading man.

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  A near complete exercise in mirthlessness and atonal satire, "Cellmates" is a sentence, all right.

• Ernest Hardy, Village Voice

  It's all grimly, predictably plotted without ever once being interesting.

• Marty Mapes, Movie Habit

  A lifer with little chance for appeal

• Brent Simon, Shockya.com

  A slight but amiable prison-set satire, Cellmates surfs along mostly on the good fortune of its casting and sly peculiarity of its forced-odd-couple premise.

• Fred Topel, CraveOnline

  Not a real movie.

• Frank Lovece, Film Journal International

  Plodding, unfunny prison comedy in which a white racist shares a cell with a naive young Mexican. Still, it's nice to see Tom Sizemore working.

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  Bold, witty and hilarious. A slice of comedy heaven. You'll laugh until it hurts.

• Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

  Broad as the brute force presentation of hot button racial issues are, the players are fully up to attacking it for all they're worth.

• Brian Tallerico, HollywoodChicago.com

  Sizemore certainly does his best to elevate the material, but every time the movie threatens to kick into gear, something generic or even sitcom-ish in its degree of cliche derails it.

• Phil Hall, Film Threat

  The real fun here comes from Stacy Keach as a warden who tries (and fails) to instill a mania for potato farming on his highly skeptical prisoners.

• Calum Marsh, Slant Magazine

  The film offers Tom Sizemore the perfect opportunity to prove himself worthy of a comeback. Alas, he fails spectacularly.

• Betty Jo Tucker, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

  A clever comedy filled with satirical humor and perceptive social commentary.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  The modest offbeat comedy gently spoofs racism.

• Tony Macklin, tonymacklin.net

  Cellmates is an indie film that shouldn't work. And at times it doesn't, but at other times it has an offbeat integrity that engages.

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