The Jesus Rolls Reviews
Fair play to Turturro for going in such a strange direction, and assembling a pretty killer cast, but it's unlikely to satisfy even the most ardent Quintana enthusiast.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2020
Choppiness is the real issue. There are baffling shunts from town to country, while the middle stretch tosses up scenes with no real function or punchline.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2020
No amount of added context can override the feeling that the Jesus was never meant to be more than a one-joke character.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2020
The Jesus Rolls only gets more seductive as it ambles towards oblivion and textures its story with a gentle sense of cosmic justice... and its genial vigor gradually comes to excuse Turturro's abject lack of style.
| Original Score: B- | Mar 3, 2020
It is very odd and not very good, but occasionally it ends up being charming in a goofy, almost innocent sort of way.
| Feb 29, 2020
It's hard to make a movie about annoying wanderers interesting, engaging, or realistic -- three words no one would use to describe this film.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 28, 2020
[A] gutter ball of a sophomoric, white middle-age male sex farce fantasy that quickly wears out an already tenuous welcome.
| Feb 27, 2020
John Turturro thought there was a full feature film in Quintana and so, decades later, we get "The Jesus Rolls," which doesn't quite prove him right.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2020
The movie doesn't always work, but it's never boring.
| Feb 27, 2020
In the end, the project doesn't really work.
| Oct 17, 2019
Though Turturro turned this small part into a memorable character for the Coens, Quintana is not so reliably funny here, especially headlining a whole movie of very intermittent charm.
| Oct 17, 2019