Movie Info
Genre :
DramaRelease Date :
October 07, 2005MPAA Rating :
PGDirector :
Rob HardyStarring :
Clifton Powell, Yolanda Adams, Dwayne Boyd, Idris Elba, Frank Taylor, Nona Gaye, Omar Gooding, Tamyra Gray, Fred Hammond, Keshia Knight Pulliam
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
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“..The story is beyond familiar, the development is standard and the resolution leaves nothing to the imagination...”
by Stan Urankar [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
“..The Gospel is soap opera spirituality that won't have any problem pleasing the faithful...”
“..just an excuse to put on a gospel show..”
by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine]
“..is concerned with a simultaneously overwrought and underdeveloped plot..”
by Brooke Holgerson [The Boston Phoenix]
“..Hardy proves unable to mine what is interesting from his own premise...”
by Mark Olsen [L.A. Weekly]
“..Everything comes to its logical movie conclusion, but the personal journey of the prodigal son is an interesting one..”
by Monica Haynes [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
“..doesn't achieve much beyond its faith-based intentions..”
by Marrit Ingman [Austin Chronicle]
“..does for film about as much as a monotone monkey can do for music...”
by Chelsea Bain [Boston Herald]
“..an over-familiar but good-hearted movie..”
by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune]
“..a technical mess of awkward framing and choppy editing..”
by Michael Rechtshaffen [The Hollywood Reporter]
“..a rich portrait of a church in transition..”
by Scott Brown [Entertainment Weekly]
“..a mostly artless, stock movie that tells a story with contrivance and clunky melodrama...”
by Kim Morgan [Reel]
“..a heartfelt but muddled melodrama about an R&B singer's crisis of faith..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
“..a dramatically slight but likeable movie about a crisis of direction in an African-American church..”
by Michael Machosky [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
