James Redfield's best seller hits the big screen with a dull thud.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

This is just dogma delivered in the blunt tones of an old classroom hygiene film.

| Mar 1, 2007

... tedious and ill-made claptrap it makes staring at your hands seem like four-star entertainment by comparison.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 12, 2006

[The film is] arguably as effective as Ambien at inducing sleep, but possible side effects include uncontrollable laughter.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 12, 2006

One would think that since the book sold 14 million copies, Hollywood would have bought the film rights waay back then , but they didn't I can now see why.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.4/5 | Aug 11, 2006

A delectable fusion of New Age babble and luridly bad filmmaking based on the best-selling 1993 book by James Redfield.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 10, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2006

The movie is flatly acted and extremely ill-paced, lacking any sense of urgency, momentum or fun.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 21, 2006

The Celestine Prophecy Movie never transcends either the look or the feel of a cult recruitment film crossed with a Christian-network infomercial.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2006

Armand Mastroianni brings James Redfield's huge bestseller to the screen with all the care it deserves ... which is none.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2006

If "The Da Vinci Code" were based on New Age theories similar to those in "What the Bleep Do We Know?" -- and if it were terrible -- the result would be "The Celestine Prophecy Movie."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 30, 2006

So clumsily made on every level -- acting, dialogue, decor, lighting, editing, scoring -- that it would never have found its way into theaters if there weren't the name of a best-seller to slap on it.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 2, 2006

A thrill-less thriller.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 26, 2006

Based on the best-selling self-help book, the movie shares the book's chief flaw, which is that it's so awkwardly put together that it's hard to concentrate on the interesting ideas it may contain.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 25, 2006

Spiritual epiphany is tough to convey onscreen, and near impossible in the hands of wooden actors.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 20, 2006

How's this for a prophecy: This earnest but hokey adaptation of James Redfield's New Age best-seller won't last more than a few weeks in theaters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 19, 2006

The movie is self-conscious and lacks dramatic tension, and the dialogue sounds like people reading passages from James Redfield's novel ...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 28, 2006

... indifferent direction douses whatever conviction gave the novel its ardent following.

| Original Score: D | Apr 21, 2006

The film does have some decent production values, but the story fails to generate much tension, perhaps because the external forces that oppose the protagonist are drawn without subtlety.

Full Review | Apr 21, 2006

Celestine functions both as a thriller and a spiritual film.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 21, 2006