Brave heroine risks it all in biblical epic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Less a celebration than a lively college lecture, with CGI standing in for landscapes, panoramas and a cast of thousands.

| Mar 1, 2007

The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 13, 2007

a welcome and honorable telling of the Purim story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 31, 2007

All the production money in the world isn't going to get this magnificent looking biblical clunker past the critics.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 26, 2006

The performances are all solid, although the screenplay frequently bogs down with the complexity of palace intrigues and plots that could have been rendered more consumer-friendly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2006

| Original Score: C | Oct 28, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2006

It's that slavish refusal to detour from the most conservative possible interpretation of such events that ultimately makes One Night With the King little more than a dolled-up, oversimplified sermon.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2006

While Dupont is lovely and sweet, the script leaves her motivations largely open and she's not enough of an actress to fill in the blanks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2006

...visually lavish but dramatically clumsy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2006

Don't Christians deserve quality? Of course...but they won't find it here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2006

This is one of those religious epics that looks like a religious epic, which is fine as far as it goes, but misses the mark because it doesn't manage to translate the feel of the original to the screen.

| Original Score: 2.2/5 | Oct 16, 2006

Director Michael O. Sajbel can't rein in the story convolutions or the pompous dialogue of Stephan Blinn's script.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2006

The movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2006

The cast is uneven but never amateurish -- Goss may not be much of an actor, but he looks terrific in various states of royal undress; much the same could be said of Yul Brynner -- and the production values are consistently high.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

In itself, it's a riveting story. Unfortunately, director Michael Sajbel has envisioned an overwrought Lifetime movie of the week, complete with an Esther who could be a cast member of Laguna Beach and a king notable only for his washboard abs.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

Distinctly made-for-온라인카지노추천 vibe [despite] visual spectacle and a distinguished supporting cast.

| Original Score: C | Oct 13, 2006