…should not be taken as gospel. This good old-fashioned funkadelic religious -themed musical offers a decidedly 1970’s hippy-dippy slant on the story of Christ, and those who find the rock-opera concept offensive should return to their unfiltered text…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2024

Finally ‘Superstar’ blares forth with the shallow impact of an inferior imitation of Isaac Hayes.

| Oct 13, 2023

"Superstar" would be fairly innocuous except that its appeal is so calculated to blitz the audience with pure, dumb sensation. The emphasis on brute scale and shrill volume is oppressive, and at times even frightening.

| Oct 3, 2023

Carl Anderson's conflicted Judas Iscariot makes the greatest dramatic impact, while Yvonne Elliman, as Mary Magdalene, has the affecting vocal power to give the production its emotional heart

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2023

The supreme failure is the director's own for trying to fill in the vacuity of the material with desperate stratagems of montage and camera trickery, and by feverishly latching on to bits of contemporary relevance that no other cat would have dragged in.

| Jul 23, 2020

The Webber-Rice score and the complex interpretations of Christ and Judas win out over any shortcomings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2020

Surely a candidate for the worst stage-to-screen musical adaptation ever.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 26, 2019

Whether or not viewers will enjoy this movie mostly depends on an appreciation for Andrew Lloyd Webber's distinctive music, especially since there's no spoken dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2015

Yvonne Elliman is electrifying as Mary Magdalene, and Carl Anderson couldn't have been better as Judas; but Ted Neeley as Jesus is more whiny than heroic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2008

If it weren't for Lost Horizon, this would have gone down in history as the Worst Musical of 1973.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2008

The music quickly becomes monotonous, and the operatic dialogue is silly right from the start.

| Mar 19, 2008

Despite the 'impressive' desert locations and an array of tanks (to represent the ills of modern militarism), it's still staged like a student revue.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2005

To this viewer, a gaudy rock rhinestone has now shriveled so transparently that by contrast it makes the Greatest Story seem greater than ever.

| May 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2005

Jewison, a director of large talent, has taken a piece of commercial shlock and turned it into a Biblical movie with dignity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2004

Flawed, but still worthwhile film of the show.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2003