40 The Hollywood Reporter | John DeFore 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. Read full review
40 Variety | 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. Read full review
30 The New York Times | 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. Read full review
30 Village Voice | Ernest Hardy 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. Read full review