This is an old-fashioned and borderline corny biopic that looks like it could have been made 40 years ago — but it’s also a true-life story about a man who denounced his racist lineage and dedicated himself to the cause, a man who is still with us today, and it’s a story well worth telling.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

It’s not that the performances are incompetent. The script is alarmingly tone-deaf.

Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Accepted on its terms, the film does a reasonably absorbing job of dramatizing how Zellner’s convictions strengthened, pulling him away from the security of inaction.

Ben Kenigsberg

The New York Times