Of Gods and Men

Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: February 25, 2011

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 44 Ratings

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shaunmedApr 22, 2011

i have no idea what the critics are talking about. this movie is for people who enjoyed the passion of the christ. it is horribly slow and uninteresting. and to top it off it's depressing too. really no need to watch this unless you're superi have no idea what the critics are talking about. this movie is for people who enjoyed the passion of the christ. it is horribly slow and uninteresting. and to top it off it's depressing too. really no need to watch this unless you're super christian and into boring movies.… Expand

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lackofcoherenceOct 27, 2022

Shallow & cheap emotional appeals. Ignores French colonization & all the scholarship critical of monasteries, the Roman Catholic Church, and French colonization of the 18th to 20th centuries. Overly simplistic movie that ignores the realShallow & cheap emotional appeals. Ignores French colonization & all the scholarship critical of monasteries, the Roman Catholic Church, and French colonization of the 18th to 20th centuries. Overly simplistic movie that ignores the real political issues. Conservative Catholics & French nationalists probably love this movie. A better plot would've been if they all went back to France and had to think about their own motivations for wanting to be monks given scholarship and history, and questioning the institutions & their own psychological reasons for wanting to be a monk in the 1990s. Huge numbers of priests & monks abandoned all of this in the 1960s to 80s, so a question I have is why these people still wanted to join, even after the smarter people all jumped ship decades prior. These men aren't saints, at best they were ignorant & misguided, at worst they are the last remnants of French colonization holding people back from self determination. In the 1960s and 70s you had Jesuits worldwide coming to terms with their own history of genocide, yet these monks somehow weren't doing that. Why do you need Christian monks handing out medicine, rather than large institutions who are better equipped?… Expand

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