A drama in which belief is reduced to well-meaning but inert treacle.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 4, 2015

Her accomplishments are even more impressive once we learn how fiercely she wrestled with God.

| Original Score: B | Dec 4, 2015

Struggles aren't ignored here; they're just surmounted with patience and devotion. That may be a good strategy in life, but it can be static to watch on screen.

| Dec 3, 2015

A biopic about Mother Teresa could have easily been a self-important slog, yet William Riead's "The Letters" proves a stirring and absorbing if not quite definitive drama.

| Dec 3, 2015

This Mother Teresa biopic offers Hallmark Channel-grade inspiration of the most sluggish sort.

| Dec 3, 2015

Writer-director William Riead offers a highly simplified version of his subject's life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 3, 2015

Slow, clunky and not terribly informative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2015

The movie simply doesn't act on the dare to portray Mother Teresa as someone more complicated than the way the world otherwise views her, leaving you to wonder why it's titled The Letters in the first place.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 3, 2015

A blandly positive biopic, with the crude shape of a melodrama, but none of the passion. The Letters feels dutiful, not artful.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 3, 2015

A brain-dead slog whose bankrupt aesthetics ironically soil the very legacy it purports to aggrandize.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Dec 1, 2015

Most of the dialogue is exposition, and when characters are asked to elaborate, they simply repeat information in slightly different terms.

| Dec 1, 2015

It's as punishingly dull as Sunday-school homework - and just as unnecessary.

| Original Score: 10/100 | Nov 24, 2015