Paul, Apostle of Christ
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 23, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 22, 2018
It’s an impressively staged, well-acted, thoughtful and faithful telling of the last days of the Apostle Paul — and how Luke risked his life again and again to visit his great mentor in prison and make a written record of Paul’s life experiences and teachings. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMar 21, 2018
Clearly well timed with Lenten reflections on sacrifice, service, suffering and responsibility. But it offers an equally relevant — and inspiring — portrayal of principled steadfastness and spiritual integrity in the face of a petty, corrupt and tyrannical leader. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 21, 2018
There is no triumph or easy uplift here, only an urgent emphasis on Christ’s message of sacrificial love and a principled rebuke to anyone who would cheapen the gospel with politics — a conclusion that has lost none of its sting or relevance 2,000 years later. Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriMar 29, 2018
There’s little in Paul, Apostle of Christ that’s not predictable, but the film engages honestly enough with its ideas that at times it feels like a small…well, let’s not use the word miracle in this case. It doesn’t shy away from complexity, and for that we can all be grateful — believers and heathens alike. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezMar 22, 2018
The film's simple, redundant, but valuable moral lesson to its audience finds comfortable enough expression in an aesthetic that's banal but impressively consistent. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 22, 2018
Countering the CG bombast and apocalyptic doom and gloom of the modern blockbuster with a soft-spoken message of faith and love, Paul, Apostle of Christ struggles to find a compelling entry point to a critical period in the early Christian church. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMar 22, 2018
We have a monotonous conjectural melodrama for the faith-based crowd that does nothing to reach out to others. It does indicate how a very important seed was planted for the blossoming of Christianity, but is banal where it needed to be charged with passion and a palpable religious compulsion of its own. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMar 21, 2018
As movies expressly courting the faith-based audience go, Paul, Apostle Of Christ acquits itself reasonably well from moment to moment, avoiding the howlers that plague such Pure Flix titles as "Samson" and "God’s Not Dead." Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 19, 2018
Hyatt isn’t very good at getting across the urgency of the story, and for all the suggestions of torture (“Another 20 lashes!”) and scenes of prisoners being burned, the picture lacks drama or the tension that an account — based on the New Testament’s “Acts” and Christian tradition — might have had. Read full review
40
TheWrapInkoo KangMar 22, 2018
Ultimately, the overstuffed, under-dramatized film fails to fully develop the stakes at hand, but it features more thoughtful world-building than most faith-based films, as well as a bracing honesty about the difficulty of reconciling idealistic credos with a harsh and unforgiving world. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 22, 2018
A few minutes of thriller-like tension early on gives way to a lot of tediously scripted scenes of whisper-acting that rarely breathe life and humanity into what should be a potent turning point story in a religion's history. Read full review
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