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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallIn addition to being one of the finest golf movies ever, this film raises the bar on faith-based cinema.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDuvall can play an avuncular cowboy sage in his sleep, but there's truly no one on Earth you'd rather see dishing out homespun aphorisms, so it's pointless to resist the pleasure of watching him do what he can do better than anyone else. Baker and Melissa Leo, as the waitress' mom, are not asked to exhibit a fraction of their talent, but they further class the joint up.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceFor a time, the film shoulders its hokum rather well, with Black strutting convincingly and Duvall's mouthy mugging mostly in check. But all those shots of heavenly shafts of light eventually climax in unabashed Christian conversion.
- 50Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreLacks surprises.
- 38Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezGod bless Robert Duvall. An American cinematic institution, our greatest living actor makes the fortune-cookie bromides of Matthew Dean Russell's Seven Days in Utopia sound like Yates.
- A squishy Hallmark Channel-level melodrama that rarely bothers to mask its propagandistic intentions.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.
- 25The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasNot a second of it is convincing - or compelling - but then the film is about "utopia," a blandly idealized place unblemished by hardship, malice, sin, or errant golf strokes.