even with apparent lack of objectivity, LUTHER proves to be more interesting and more accurate depiction of history than anything recently produced by Hollywood

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 1, 2005

Interessante por natureza (o tema fascinante), o filme perde pontos pela frieza da narrativa e por simplificar idias e alguns acontecimentos fundamentais na vida de Lutero.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2005

It glosses over the brilliant monk's dark side and ignores his prejudices completely.

| Original Score: C | Dec 3, 2004

Luther is rarely presented as anything other than a preacher. He preaches even in casual conversation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2004

An effective history lesson, but not nearly riveting enough to be as entertaining as it is earnest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 22, 2004

An entertaining, well-crafted primer on one of the most important Christian leaders since Jesus Christ.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2004

About as swashbuckling as a history lesson gets.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Luther is the textbook radical: he acts out what his contemporaries merely profess.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2004

A few too many amateurish techniques and oversimplified confrontations hold Luther back a notch or two from greatness, and stamp it instead as entertaining Lutheran cheerleading.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 21, 2003

There are enough sympathetic figures in the Catholic establishment (Matthieu Carriere's Cardinal Cajetan chief among them) to create some sense of historical nuance. Moreover, we get to see some warts of the Reformation.

| Nov 20, 2003

Both as a veteran movie reviewer and long-time Lutheran, I left the theater with the feeling that "Luther" is a good movie about a great man.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2003

Shot on 100 locations in three countries and outfitted with impressive props, costumes, art direction and medieval streets, Luther makes up for what it lacks in vigorous storytelling with such production values.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2003

There is some valuable historical detail in the script, but Luther's philosophy is simplified and sanitized. The acting is flat and surprisingly uninvolving.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 6, 2003

So concerned with events that it forgoes ideas, and when your subject is famous for his ideas, ignoring them is doing a great disservice.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 5, 2003

muddies the historical facts, flatly constructs its major characters as stereotypes, and fails to entertain

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 5, 2003

Heady theological badminton, as vigorously thoughtful as it is piously historical.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 2, 2003

Though it fails when providing a rounded history of the life of Martin Luther, it succeeds in giving viewers a little taste of the other social factors influencing things during the 16th century in Europe.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2003

A throwback to the days when such movies as 'A Man for All Seasons' tackled big religious ideas in the context of significant historical events...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2003

I've studied Martin Luther. Joseph Fiennes ruins him.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2003