Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker |
7 |
...a refreshingly unadorned example of straightforward storytelling. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
7 |
...reverent without seeming too pious-minded and loving without being sticky. |
E!
Dezhda Mountz |
6 |
...has a "movie of the week" feel... |
filmcritic.com
David Thomas |
6 |
In spite of a plethora of plot the film never really feels like it's going anywhere. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
3 |
...a deadly dull, by-the-numbers rendition of the Nativity story. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
6 |
...as solemnly predictable as a Catholic-school nativity play, and nearly as dull. |
Reel
Tim Knight |
5 |
...a scrupulously reverent and utterly conventional bore. |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
5 |
Courtesy of Catherine Hardwicke, The Nativity has become the most boring story ever told. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
4 |
Dear God, it is all so respectable and dull! |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
7 |
...sticks to the familiar details of the narrative and dramatizes them with sincerity and good taste. |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
5 |
...a super-earnest Classics Illustrated version of the Nativity story, a cinematic Bible class that flatters the chosen but has little to offer anyone who is not already a believer. |
People
Leah Rozen |
5 |
...dry and dusty as the landscape of its locale. |
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas |
5 |
Finally, the stars align. A shaft of heavenly light pours down upon the earth. The audience lets out a collective yawn. |
Village Voice
Scott Foundas |
5 |
Finally, the stars align. A shaft of heavenly light pours down upon the earth. The audience lets out a collective yawn. |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
6 |
...a filmed Sunday-school lesson... |
Maxim
Pete Hammond |
4 |
...with impressive camerawork and authentic locations, it's not a dud. It's just clearly made for no other reason then to cash in on the Christian movie-ment and become a holiday season perennial. Yawn. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
6 |
...a rather lifeless re-telling of the Nativity... |
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