The Gospel Reviews

Movie Reviews

• 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.

  by [The Dallas Morning News ]

• 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 ]
• Reviewed by Daniel Neman [Richmond Times-Dispatch ]
• Reviewed by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Steve Persall [Houston Chronicle ]

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