| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2007

| Original Score: B- | Jul 6, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2007

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2005

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The film falls short on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original New Testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2002

It's a persuasive spiritual journey, sentimental at times but never hopelessly cloying.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2002

The script covers huge, heavy topics in a bland, surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why, for instance, good things happen to bad people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2002

Ultimately, we're left with 90 minutes worth of good intentions and sweet sentiments that never coalesce into an involving story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2002

What would Jesus do if He was a film director? He'd create a movie better than this.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2002

It's played in the most straight-faced fashion, with little humor to lighten things up. The heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2002

Christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their Lord as a luv-spreading Dr. Feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists, who might even praise God for delivering such an instant camp classic.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 12, 2002

What's refreshing about 'Joshua' is its acknowledgment that a spiritual 'message' can permeate without constant reminders of 'Look alive out there - here comes a Sunday school lesson!'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2002

Not an objectionable or dull film; it merely lacks everything except good intentions.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 7, 2002

Any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director Jon Purdy's sledgehammer sap.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2002

Only for the already devoted.

| Original Score: C | Apr 24, 2002

One key problem with these ardently Christian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Apr 21, 2002

As a feature film it fails miserably.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 19, 2002

A well-meaning but flat and awfully simple-minded parable that aims to be uplifting and ends up rather silly.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 19, 2002