It's not a bad movie, but it's also not great. If you're feeling nostalgic for early aughts movies like She's All That, then this is for you.

| Oct 20, 2020

Instead of mockery, "Latter Days" is a vulnerable effort, rich with compassion and patience.

| Original Score: B | Nov 12, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Cox -- who experienced the Mormon view on gay life firsthand -- gets the sort of performances out of his characters that will help you overlook what is cliched about the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2004

simple paint-by-the numbers gay themed film that strikes directly at Mormon dogma, but it has a certain charm due mainly to Sandvoss' Herculean efforts

| Original Score: B- | Jun 30, 2004

Ramsey's heartbreak, stock taking and determination to see to it the relationship gets a second chance are as affecting as anything the genre has produced in recent memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2004

Overall generalities about the main characters, a tendency to reveal them through monologue rather than behavior, and a lack of curiosity about the Mormon youth's core beliefs keep Latter Days from feeling genuinely personal or particularly substantive.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 7, 2004

The screenplay is efficient to a fault, populated with stock characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2004

Cox can be forgiven for getting a little preachy when he makes his point with such an open heart and loving spirit

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2004

...Funny, tragic, occasionally cheesy, endearing and ultimately heartwarming, dealing with very serious Christian hypocrisy while holding onto a light, life-embracing tone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2004

What would happen between a hedonistic fairy and an earnest but curious Mormon?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 7, 2004

Renders its gay and religious characters so stereotypical that neither lifestyle appears attractive.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 2, 2004

A coming-of-age, coming-out, romantic comedy, religious intolerance flick, and if that sounds a bit crowded, that's because it is.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Apr 2, 2004

A fairly flat, predictable tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2004

The whole Mormon/gay thing would be plenty for one movie without also sticking in AIDS, the betrayal of friends and actors-trying- to-get-their- big-break.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2004

Writer-director C. Jay Cox has created a tender gay love story, and then buries it under shrill diatribes, plot clichs and one-note characters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Even those who aren't immediately put off by the film's brazen attacks on religion -- and in particular, the LDS Church -- will likely be bored by this clumsy, incredibly contrived comedy, which has little charm.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 26, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2004

Even if the film feels somewhat contrived, stick with it; you'll be rewarded by what it has to say.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2004