Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"If I were as unfair as director Mike Binder is to his African-American characters, I'd say this project is a white filmmaker's rationalization to have a white character occasionally say (and certainly think) the N-word while raising a black child."

Name : Jordan Mintzer / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A broad but touching dramedy about the racial barriers that divide us and the family ties that bind.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The filmmaker and his on-screen proxies boldly go places our national discourse desperately needs to go, yet rarely does.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
Kevin Costner shines in Mike Binder's disappointingly dull and safe-playing race relations drama.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
This is a tiresome interracial custody dramedy in which white non-guilt righteously dukes it out with black melodrama.