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Based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter Susan McMartin, the story is set in 1965 Los Angeles, telling the story of a young girl and her dying mother who are joined by a black male cook who comes to live with them, making their lives change forever.
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New York Daily News
Murphy's low-key but affecting performance is filled with loaded and loving glances. And the restraint becomes the 55-year-old star. If only the film were better.
September 16, 2016
Common Sense Media
Cliched drama has sad moments, drinking, stereotypes.
September 19, 2016
Black Girl Nerds
Man, this type of role is really out of pocket for Eddie Murphy. He isn't funny, and he isn't particularly interesting.
January 01, 2017
RogerEbert.com
After helming this, an episode of Roots and Best Picture-winner Driving Miss Daisy, Beresford should be forced to join 'Subservient Cinematic Negroes Anonymous.'
September 16, 2016
Movie Nation
"Mr. Church" serves up comfort food in an era when every food truck and most indie films offer more interesting fare.
September 22, 2016
Seattle Times
Get out your handkerchiefs, but don't expect to believe a minute of this vastly improbable tale.
September 15, 2016
Cinemalogue.com
Murphy's understated portrayal is a highlight in an otherwise heavy-handed examination of the way in which troubled souls come together to form surrogate families.
September 23, 2016
Washington Post
Murphy is fine as the title character, although his performance consists mostly of suppressing all of his usual shtick. He certainly doesn't endow Mr. Church with any unexpected depths. But then neither does the script.
September 15, 2016
Los Angeles Times
Somehow Murphy manages to lift his dignified, all-knowing servant character off the page, giving a meticulously composed performance in a vehicle that can't help but feel superficially repackaged.
September 15, 2016
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Very hokey and old-fashioned in its sensibilities, but Eddie Murphy's performance is excellent.
September 28, 2016
New Yorker
It's repugnant for its dehumanizing view (however unintentionally so) of a black man, and repugnant for its emptying-out of one of the great black performers of the time into a sanitized symbol of acceptable blackness.
September 22, 2016
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