The ensuing life lesson drama has all the spice of a bowl of oats.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2019

This is a bellyaching, foot-stomping, hoot-and-hollering movie for any crowd.

| Nov 9, 2018

A shamelessly feelgood movie with a lightweight moral theme involving honesty, prejudice and hypocrisy, it narrowly keeps its head above the cliches by virtue of its attractive star and musical numbers.

| Jan 11, 2018

Great music, mediocre plot and acting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The indifferent gospel music that permeates the movie never solidifies with the dramatic might that the genre is known for...

| Original Score: C- | Jun 14, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Although there are plenty of positive, feel-good elements to this movie, they are outweighed by missed opportunities to do something more valuable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 14, 2005

...the plot's stupid, the writing's bad, the acting is barely professional, but the movie isn't evil.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 27, 2005

You might think this prodigal would learn to take responsibility for his lies ... or humbly accept the consequences of his crimes and change. Nope.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 15, 2005

As a romantic comedy...neither exceptional nor groundbreaking. But as a musical, the movie bursts with foot-stomping, arm-swaying, finger-snapping gospel music.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2004

The Fighting Temptations is a movie that will soften even the most cynical moviegoer. You can see most of it coming a mile away, and it still works.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2004

Down-home, good-natured sense of humor, but a sitcom-ish sentimentality often veering between Sunday sermonizing and silliness.

Full Review | Dec 31, 2003

hopelessly sub-standard feel-good fare

| Dec 12, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 26, 2003

All about the music, and you'd have to be truly tone-deaf not to respond to its soaring harmonies and spirited spirituality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2003

It feels more like an artificial fable than a story we can sink our teeth into.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 16, 2003

Cuba Gooding Jr. [is] so animated a performer that he even appears to be overacting on this movie's poster.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2003