The God Committee marks a smart, thought-provoking entry into the canon of bioethical filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2024

There is a genuine dilemma at the heart of the film, and maybe the answer is a simple one – better others play God than us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Kelsey Grammer is the eminent surgeon, a chain-smoking cynic; Julia Stiles is his young protegee and secret lover; while Janeane Garofalo chairs the board. They are an intelligent ensemble who make believable doctor types.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2022

A donor heart is an ethical hot potato in a push-pull of clashing agendas.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 27, 2021

The God Committee is in serious need of resuscitation, and it may not be worth saving.

| Aug 21, 2021

A provocative drama about the ethical questions involved in choosing an organ transplant recipient.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2021

'...intelligent, thoughtful entertainment of a challenging kind that's increasingly scarce in 2021...'

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

This had the potential to be the 12 Angry Men of medical ethics. Instead, it is weighed down by sentimentality, mainstream conventions and the film making by committee which demands a happy ending.

| Jul 25, 2021

[It] has enough gripping suspense that it didn't need a futuristic subplot about [pig heart transplant] experiments ... All the principal cast members give very good performances, [so] any other flaws of the movie are overshadowed by these assets.

| Jul 19, 2021

It feels as if the story has been given a last-minute melodrama transplant.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 12, 2021

The overall feeling is one of claustrophobia as well as verbosity and inflated self-importance.

| Original Score: C | Jul 9, 2021

"Committee" overstocks the moral predicaments sometimes, but it does raise many salient points.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2021

A compelling narrative story [with] outstanding performances, most notably an award-worthy turn by Kelsey Grammer

| Jul 6, 2021

Watching Committee is an act of agreeing to dwell in unpleasant cynicism for over 90 minutes.

| Jul 6, 2021

Despite some compelling performances, a potentially provocative exploration of medical ethics is compromised by melodramatic contrivances.

| Jul 3, 2021

In Austin Stark's serious-as-a-heart-attack melodrama, a hospital's transplant committee debates the ethics of who will get a human heart and live. Issues of class, race, mental health and money predominate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2021

A film that takes a fairly intriguing premise and a cast of strong actors and proceeds to throw both away with a script that is so cluttered and convoluted that it renders the basic drama at the heart of it all but inert.

| Jul 2, 2021

This earnest drama is a largely understated affair whose creakier elements are offset by a nuanced look at its various entangled issues.

| Jul 2, 2021

This medical pulse pounder is smart and efficient, written and directed by Austin Stark based on Mark St. Germain's play.

| Jul 2, 2021

Squeezing every possible ounce out of the actors, script and sets, Austin Stark's thrilling medical drama that asks: what is the cost of living?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2021