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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeIts low-rent cast and unappealing key art won't help at the box office, but viewers who stumble across it on cable may be pleasantly, if mildly, surprised.
- 30Village VoiceErnest HardyVillage VoiceErnest HardyThe film, directed by Jesse Baget, aims to be a satiric look at racism but at every turn flaunts the laws of logic and believability.
- The credibility is low, the idealism high and the sentiment through the roof in Jesse Baget's slender, micro-budgeted comedy Cellmates, a schematic parable about racism and (less overtly) illegal immigration.
- 12Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film offers Tom Sizemore the perfect opportunity to prove himself worthy of a comeback. Alas, he fails spectacularly.
- 10Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA near complete exercise in mirthlessness and atonal satire, Cellmates is a sentence, all right.