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It's sweetly amiable and solidly performed, but Black Nativity suffers from director Kasi Lemmons' heavy-handed treatment of its celebrated source material.
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All of Black Nativity proceeds with sort of clumsy obviousness. December 10, 2013 | Full Review…
All of Black Nativity proceeds with sort of clumsy obviousness.
Wesley Morris
By the time the credits rolled, my eyes were sore from all the rolling. December 9, 2013 | Full Review…
By the time the credits rolled, my eyes were sore from all the rolling.
Calum Marsh
An inept, often ludicrous, take on Langston Hughes' 1961 musical-play. December 6, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
An inept, often ludicrous, take on Langston Hughes' 1961 musical-play.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Points for dogged credulity: whether trying to pass off Times Square as Judea or Tyrese "Fast & Furious" Gibson as the Angel Gabriel, it sincerely believes it. You, of course, are at liberty not to. December 5, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Points for dogged credulity: whether trying to pass off Times Square as Judea or Tyrese "Fast & Furious" Gibson as the Angel Gabriel, it sincerely believes it. You, of course, are at liberty not to.
Mike McCahill
It's a misguided enterprise all round, and while it's perfectly possible to applaud everything the film wants to say, you find yourself cringing at the ways it's saying it. December 5, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
It's a misguided enterprise all round, and while it's perfectly possible to applaud everything the film wants to say, you find yourself cringing at the ways it's saying it.
Tim Robey
Even the movie's most wretched characters glow in the Harlem lamplight. November 28, 2013 | Full Review…
Even the movie's most wretched characters glow in the Harlem lamplight.
Mark Jenkins
If not for the presence of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Black Nativity would likely be an easily tossed away film for anyone. September 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.0/4.0 | Full Review…
If not for the presence of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Black Nativity would likely be an easily tossed away film for anyone.
Richard Propes
We're in that strange area where a film balances between two opposite ends: it's impossible to hate, but really tough to love July 28, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
We're in that strange area where a film balances between two opposite ends: it's impossible to hate, but really tough to love
Allen Almachar
To wrap up, Black Nativity isn't the best holiday film we have this season and probably won't clean up at the cinema because in the end it's just a quite average movie. January 11, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
To wrap up, Black Nativity isn't the best holiday film we have this season and probably won't clean up at the cinema because in the end it's just a quite average movie.
Julian Lytle
Even though the principal (and poignant) message of forgiveness eventually wins through, the melodrama endured to get there is a high price to pay. March 6, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Even though the principal (and poignant) message of forgiveness eventually wins through, the melodrama endured to get there is a high price to pay.
Amon Warmann
I'm just going to describe the experience as Lemmons-esque, the result of a fearless and passionate dreamer whose deeper imaginative realms have become recognizable in her work. August 20, 2018 | Full Review…
I'm just going to describe the experience as Lemmons-esque, the result of a fearless and passionate dreamer whose deeper imaginative realms have become recognizable in her work.
Lapacazo Sandoval
Even though Black Nativity feels a little cluttered early on, a strong third act leaves the audience with the clarity of a more satisfying high note (and I mean that literally; a cover of the Stevie Wonder classic "As" plays over the closing credits). November 29, 2017 | Full Review…
Even though Black Nativity feels a little cluttered early on, a strong third act leaves the audience with the clarity of a more satisfying high note (and I mean that literally; a cover of the Stevie Wonder classic "As" plays over the closing credits).
Josh Terry
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