Risen is certainly a step up for this genre, and it's more open-minded than you would expect. But this is still a movie made for a captured Christian audience, and it will be those viewers who will like it best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2017

With so many horrible faith-based features littering the multiplex ranging from the ho-hum (Heaven Is for Real), to the inept (God's Not Dead) to the perfectly dreadful (War Room), it's nice to have one that treats its audience with respect.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2016

Risen isn't a film that will convert nonbelievers, but it's more ambitious than the standard faith-based genre fare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2016

It's solidly middling fare, soft of heart and script, and given to moments of foolishly miraculous folly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2016

Risen is a sort of Sunday school special, an Easter adventure starring Joseph Fiennes as Clavius, a war-hardened Roman tribune who ends up investigating the disappearance of Jesus after the stone is mysteriously rolled away from the Messiah's tomb.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016

The problem here is that there is no zest at all to the storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016

It has its moments, but it blows the interesting premise - the resurrection of Jesus told as a mystery - too early for an overlong, overly religious finale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2016

Never mind a three-person God, this Nazarene would have trouble selling a fridge to the uninitiated.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2016

Curtis, who imbues Yeshua with a palpable, eloquent kindness, vaults the perceptual impediments that usually accompany the casting of Jesus.

| Mar 8, 2016

As far as this sort of movie goes, you could do a lot worse.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 25, 2016

It's nice to finally see the Messiah portrayed by somebody who'd probably get extra attention at a U.S. airport by Homeland Security.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2016

"Risen" is a fascinating cultural artifact, but as a film, it's destined for no glory greater than as an appropriate cable rerun on Easter.

| Feb 21, 2016

For a film that could have easily become bogged down in Sunday School reverence, or culture-war opportunism, Risen presents an intriguing, oblique approach to a Bible movie.

| Feb 21, 2016

The story of Christ's resurrection is unlikely to take any sudden detours. But the Roman point of view adds real interest.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 19, 2016

Whatever your religious affiliation, you will come away thinking that if all this did actually happen, it probably happened something like this.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2016

Despite not doing much more than preach to the choir, Risen is still more nuanced than the lion's share of recent faith-based dramas.

| Feb 19, 2016

It's pointed about how we treat today's zealots, as when Clavius likens the pain of crucification to "sucking air through a wet cloth" - a description of waterboarding.

| Original Score: C | Feb 19, 2016

For all its issues, Risen remains more interesting in some ways than a straightforward dramatization of the Gospel story like Son of God.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 19, 2016

It's not often that faith-based films, competing in the same marketplace that rewards action, embrace the deeper, more difficult idea of meeting hate with love, but Risen tries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2016

It's an episode of Without a Trace: Jerusalem presented with all the panache of a Trinity Broadcasting Network 온라인카지노추천 special.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 19, 2016