An overly sentimental faith-based drama about ordinary people who do extraordinary things to help others. Considering the genre and its audience, it's a little more than just passable.

| Feb 4, 2025

An inspiring true story about a woman who practices two kinds of charity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2024

Ordinary Angels is a nice, tearjerky cornball drama that mostly feels like a reasonable, if slightly heightened, depiction of real life.

| Sep 26, 2024

In many ways, Ordinary Angels is the kind of faith-based film that should be seen as a how-to guide on promoting good Christian values without alienating or demonising non-religious audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2024

A hairdresser looking for salvation and a gruff father with a sick daughter make for positive messages and positive people

| Original Score: B | May 23, 2024

It mostly succeeds.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2024

“Ordinary Angels” is proof that events that are real don’t necessarily feel real when put up on screen, and that can make all the difference.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2024

Not an extraordinary miracle of cinema, but it's an effective, emotional feel good movie with positive messages. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 8, 2024

While this film strains a bit to depict the most inspirational version of a true story, it thankfully avoids sentimentality due to grounded storytelling and nicely nuanced performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 30, 2024

The drama is pretty pedestrian; the storytelling is wantonly manipulative, and I have to say that I was manipulated against my better judgment.

| Apr 30, 2024

It's billed as a 'faith-based' film, which usually means saccharine or maudlin, but Swank gives it a measure of credibility.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2024

The film’s more overtly Christian elements, including calls for divine intervention, dovetail neatly with Sharon’s yearning to be held, supported and, ultimately, forgiven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2024

The performances are solid and the story is touching — and perhaps that will carry this to its chosen audience. But it's a little flat for true drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2024

Taken on its own terms as an old-fashioned character drama and showcase for Ritchson as a dramatic actor (he’s genuinely really good), it does the job it set out to do.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2024

Despite a strong performance from Alan Ritchson, Ordinary Angels' chaotic editing style makes the film hard to connect with.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 3, 2024

On the other hand, although the approach to things may be too simplistic, the double Oscar winner Hilary Swank holds the entire scaffolding with her excellent performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 27, 2024

If you want a better made version of a faith-based film, this could serve as that.

| Mar 22, 2024

I gather that, because it was based on a true story, the script didn't feel the need to explain why any of these character motivations made any sense.

| Mar 22, 2024

Blasting into the picture at about the 20-minute mark like she's auditioning for a remake of Erin Brockovich and nothing is going to get in her way. Swank grasps this by the scruff and just keeps shaking until it starts to look like a watchable film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 22, 2024

It is nice to see films with positive messages and director Joe Gunn milks every tear he can.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2024