Stories About Jesus, Ranked

by Joal Ryan, for Metacritic – November 18, 2016

Cinema has been telling the story of Jesus since the 19th century. Spurred in part by the blockbuster success of The Passion of the Christ, the tradition is as strong as ever.

Here's a look at present-day films and TV features, released from 2000 to today, that have featured Jesus as a character. Using Metacritic data, we've ranked them from least to most critically acclaimed.

6 of 14 photo by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

47 The Passion of the Christ

Jim Caviezel starred in modest hits such as Frequency and The Count of Monte Cristo before becoming the face of writer-director Mel Gibson's 2004 passion project about Jesus' final hours.

“[Gibson has] made the first true Jesusploitation flick, a picture that, despite its self-righteous air of grave religiosity, is barely spiritual at all.” —Stephanie Zacharek, Salon

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