The best film yet from Sherwood Pictures.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Most of the characters are well-written and nuanced.

| Jun 25, 2018

Nicely produced, but the converted are more likely to be impressed than the skeptical.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 30, 2011

Dares to preach its highly controversial message in order to inspire the faithful while risking the ire of critics and non-believers. Its message? Fathers, man up.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 8, 2011

Despite violence, Christian fatherhood drama is uplifting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2011

Yeah, it's still a preach-to-the-choir movie, but this choir doesn't really see itself on the big screen very often, so don't begrudge them a film where the action hero cop stops and prays for guidance before big gun battle. It happens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2011

Sadly, this particular Gospel is not very good.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2011

It takes a certain touch to pull it off, and here, the serviceable cast just doesn't have it in them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2011

The many topics raised - gangs, drugs, immigration, absentee parents, poverty - are examined with didacticism and platitudes instead of by mining their inherent complexities.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2011

Overplotted and understructured, "Courageous" is a slog to get through at 130 minutes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 2, 2011

Devolves into over-the-top drama and a suffocating heavy-handedness.

| Original Score: C | Oct 2, 2011

Fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin.

| Oct 1, 2011

Courageous literally preaches to the converted, delivering ham-fisted messages of responsibility to the most receptive audience possible.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 1, 2011

Profound without being preachy, "Courageous" never forgets to entertain

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 1, 2011

It has some occasional rough acting, is too episodic for its own good, and could have been trimmed by a good 30 minutes. Even so, it's the group's most accomplished offering to date and that's saying something. (Movie Review for Parents also available)

| Sep 30, 2011

The performances are effective all around with director Kendrick quite moving in the central role of Adam, the veteran officer, who suffers a horrific family tragedy that sets much of the film's plot in motion.

| Sep 30, 2011

Praise be to Courageous for being upfront.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2011

A valiant effort, but Courageous is such a clumsy motion picture, incapable of delivering its critical messages without displaying some of the most cringe-inducing filmmaking of the year.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 30, 2011

If you have a tendency to nod off during sermons, Courageous has a cure for that -- a noisy last act gun-battle with drug dealers that's primetime ready.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 30, 2011

While the film's church-based roots and the tendency toward didactic, schematic storytelling are still in evidence, Courageous is [Sherwood's] most ambitious and watchable film to date.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2011