What's fascinating about these two characters is not just how different they start off in the beginning of the movie, but how... They grow from not just the high school caricatures we assume to survive, but end up whole and complex people.

| Jun 14, 2021

Begins as a satire, ends with a renewal of faith.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

It's a shame the closing moral about a more pragmatic, inclusive approach to spirituality is conveyed with such a heavy hand.

| Jun 24, 2006

The idea is inspired and the enthusiasm evident in every aspect of story and performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Wholly lacking in conviction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2004

No doubt the filmmakers are bracing for -- even hoping for -- a display of ire from religious conservatives. But the truth is, nothing in Saved! stings.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

A minor work, yet it has a teasing lilt to it, and to make it at all took courage and originality.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2004

After two comically inventive scenes, it quickly turns soft and flat.

| Jun 24, 2004

A sweet, often very funny, and ultimately pretty soft satire in which everybody - and I mean everybody - is let off the hook.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2004

Something puts the fear of God into Saved! about halfway in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2004

Saved! ultimately can't quite go the distance, but it's a promising debut by a filmmaker to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2004

Blessed by a potent cast, Saved! lets its teens be teens -- pimples, if not warts, and all.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 11, 2004

There are many blessed moments in this movie.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 11, 2004

A wickedly funny movie well worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2004

Has the glitteringly satiric dialogue of Election -- and the soul of an after-school special.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2004

Isn't as funny, or as wicked, as it should be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2004

There is undoubtedly a funny social satire to be set in a Christian high school, but Saved! is neither bold nor insightful enough to be it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 11, 2004

This is one of the most intriguing rite-of-passage teen comedies in a long time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2004

It's a relevant, irreverent and emotionally honest film that suggests it's OK to laugh in church, at least every now and then.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2004

It puts a new twist on the au courant genre of mean-teen comedies.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 10, 2004