Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critics  Critic score
distribution:   1. Positive: 1 out of 4   2. Negative: 0 out of
4   1. Reviewed by: Ed Bark     Sep 20, 2013     Watsons Go to
Birmingham is well-meaning to a fault and would play well as a
teaching tool in elementary school classrooms.   2. Reviewed
by: Allison Keene     Sep 20, 2013     The Watsons are a fine
family to spend two hours with (Wood Harris is a particular
stand-out as the jovial father), but a story that instead
reveals more personal acts of heroism might have elevated its
impact just that much further.   3. Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
Sep 20, 2013     Hallmark Channel’s warm but sometimes thin
adaptation of The Watsons Go to Birmingham, based on Christopher
Paul Curtis’s award-winning children’s book, is at first a
welcome departure from the network’s usual Slanket-ready movies.
4. Reviewed by: David Wiegand     Sep 20, 2013     While the
film's tone may fit the kind of fuzzy warmth of most Hallmark
Channel fare, it doesn't fit th