This summer’s film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel The Help is certainly a tearjerker—even the elderly man sitting next to me in the theater was dabbing his eyes. But despite the film’s ability to make viewers weep, it’s received a significant amount of negative reviews. Many critics have placed it in the category of “white savior” films with The Blind Side (The Orlando Sentinel), Mississippi Burning (Christian Science Monitor), and Driving Miss Daisy (Buffalo News).
