Squanders its good intentions with its numbingly bloated 140-minute running time.

Full Review | Feb 15, 2007

Unfortunately for God-fearing youths in desperate need of counseling on the horrors of sin-eating, [Cadi's] spiritual awakening will likely put audiences to sleep.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 10, 2007

The Last Sin Eater is close to nature and boasts many of the elements we expect from solid family entertainment, albeit with tragic overtones that keep the story grounded in a rich emotional context.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2007

The special effects look like they were executed on somebody's laptop.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007

The film's rhythm drags. And [director] Landon uses the 'when in doubt, pump up the score' method for signaling Cadi's emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 9, 2007

The Last Sin Eater is religious art for mainstream consumption.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2007

Never afraid to overstate the obvious, helmer and co-scripter Landon establishes, underscores and italicizes each plot point with the well-intentioned didacticism of a Sunday School teacher.

| Feb 8, 2007

Efforts to build suspense, with ominous music and dark figures flashing past the camera, are laughably amateurish, as is the made-for-온라인카지노추천 cinematography.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 8, 2007

The look of The Last Sin Eater is muddy and indiscriminately focused. The camera always seems to be too far off when you wish to get a better look and too close when you wish that it would point at anything other than what's in the frame.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 8, 2007

Its chances of crossover success with the secular crowd seem remote, given the dramatic shortcomings. The cast's attempts to speak in the old country accent have uneven results. And the story often feels pedestrian and predictable.

| Feb 8, 2007

The Last Sin Eater has flaws too hard to ignore. The lovely shots of Appalachian vistas are spoiled by cheesy special effects straight from the 1960s Chroma-Key era.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 8, 2007

If Sin Eater wasn't so laborious, it might be easier to overlook the movie's predictability. With too many slow-developing subplots, though, it finally illicits a feeling something like squirming in a hard pew during a long-winded sermon.

| Original Score: C | Feb 8, 2007

The only people who can possibly learn something from a movie like The Last Sin Eater are those who follow blindly.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 7, 2007

Liberato muddles through a heavy-handed Christian agenda and barely legible plot.

| Feb 6, 2007