2014 is proving to be the year that faith-based cinema is breaking out of its credible indie vibe and sweeping into wide release mode.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

The script stumbles a few times and is a bit too wordy, but the strong acting makes up for it. This is a feel-good family film that just may cause you to shed a tear or two...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2020

Despite its many good points, Heaven is for Real can't escape its limitations, and does at times feel like a 온라인카지노추천 movie of the week. It is an intriguing story, yet it fails to analyze the issues at hand in any depth.

| Mar 5, 2019

Presents some compelling theological arguments with a first-rate cast and, for the most part, good direction.

| Feb 1, 2019

[Heaven is for Real] is simply a good, old-fashioned film the entire family can enjoy and maybe, just maybe, it could spark some insightful conversation.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 15, 2018

There are plenty of movies out there that will try to get an audience to question its faith; this one will allow the faithful to examine their beliefs from a position of confidence.

| Nov 22, 2017

Heaven is for Real is about Christians and how Christians talk about, and perhaps imagine, heaven to be.

| Aug 9, 2017

Highly recommended for those struggling with belief in spiritual realities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2016

"Some people might be afraid to believe," Todd (Greg Kinnear) sighs at one point. The triumph of Heaven Is for Real is in the film's embrace of the very down-to-earth notion that such fear can lurk even in the hearts of those who have faith.

| Original Score: 4 of 5 | Apr 18, 2016

It never strays far from preaching, leaving viewers no choice but to see Pastor Burpo primarily as an unreliable narrator.

| Oct 8, 2015

A smooth, easygoing film that will please its target audience, even if it doesn't quite reach the heavenly heights of other inspirational efforts in the faith-based genre.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 5, 2014

It's really just more numbing propaganda.

| Jul 23, 2014

Christians may shout hallelujah that faith-based films are arriving in theaters, but believers should pray for something much better.

| Original Score: C | Jul 5, 2014

While the film makes decent use of the plains of Nebraska to give us a portrait of smalltown Red States America, there's a hectoring, insincere feel to this project that renders it practically unwatchable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2014

You'd think any movie that an all-powerful deity had a hand in would be awesome, right? Turns out, not so much. There's barely even a story here.

| May 30, 2014

This latest spot of cinevangelism at least sports a theatrical heft ...

| May 29, 2014

...a bottom-of-the-barrel drama that's been geared towards the lowest common denominator.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 16, 2014

Unlikely to convert any skeptics, but if they wander into the multiplex, they'll find that that the prettily photographed sermon goes down easily.

| May 15, 2014

Heaven Is for Real works in mysterious ways for a faith-based movie. It actually leaves room for doubt, in a genre founded on Christian absolutes. Tears aren't jerked; Bibles aren't thumped. Believing gets easier.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 29, 2014

...will no doubt fill a niche, but a more satisfying movie could have been made had the filmmakers followed Iris DeMent's advice and simply let the mystery be.

| Original Score: 82/100 | Apr 27, 2014