Cellmates
Metascore
20 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    May 31, 2012
    10
    A near complete exercise in mirthlessness and atonal satire, Cellmates is a sentence, all right.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Calum Marsh
    May 29, 2012
    12
    The film offers Tom Sizemore the perfect opportunity to prove himself worthy of a comeback. Alas, he fails spectacularly.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: John DeFore
    Jun 1, 2012
    40
    Its 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.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Andy Webster
    Jun 1, 2012
    30
    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.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Andrew Barker
    Jun 14, 2012
    40
    Director Baget clearly strives to replicate the ersatz Dixie flavors of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" right down to the vintage '30s music in a film set in the 1970s, but nailing the Coen brothers' precisely calibrated style is far harder than it looks.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    May 29, 2012
    30
    The film, directed by Jesse Baget, aims to be a satiric look at racism but at every turn flaunts the laws of logic and believability.

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