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I Can Only Imagine's message will have the most impact among Christian audiences, but overall, its performances and storytelling represent a notable evolution in faith-based cinema.
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Thankfully, I Can Only Imagine doesn't feel like a Sunday school lesson, but it never manages to escape its sense of banal familiarity. June 3, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Thankfully, I Can Only Imagine doesn't feel like a Sunday school lesson, but it never manages to escape its sense of banal familiarity.
Matthew Lucas
Accomplishes its goal of informing faith based audiences the journey the protagonist went through before writing the famous Christian song. May 22, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Accomplishes its goal of informing faith based audiences the journey the protagonist went through before writing the famous Christian song.
Jason Escamilla
The film veers so far off-course that I could barely believe my eyes. March 21, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The film veers so far off-course that I could barely believe my eyes.
Francis X. Friel
Overall, it's an enjoyable and moving faith based film. February 28, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Overall, it's an enjoyable and moving faith based film.
Rachel Wagner
I can't imagine this Christian-based film reaching much of a secular audience. September 7, 2018 | Rating: C | Full Review…
I can't imagine this Christian-based film reaching much of a secular audience.
Dennis Schwartz
[A] slickly assembled tale of redemption and reconciliation. August 8, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
[A] slickly assembled tale of redemption and reconciliation.
Leslie Felperin
An inspirational drama that, unlike most faith-based endeavors, at least looks like a real movie rather than something even Ed Wood would have rejected. June 17, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
An inspirational drama that, unlike most faith-based endeavors, at least looks like a real movie rather than something even Ed Wood would have rejected.
Matt Brunson
Solid if unapologetically by-the-numbers, this story of perseverance and forgiveness should resonate beyond its targeted Christian audience. June 10, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Solid if unapologetically by-the-numbers, this story of perseverance and forgiveness should resonate beyond its targeted Christian audience.
Edmund Lee
With excellent performances from [Dennis] Quaid and [J. Michael Finley] Finley the result is decent. [Full Review in Spanish] April 2, 2018 | Full Review…
With excellent performances from [Dennis] Quaid and [J. Michael Finley] Finley the result is decent. [Full Review in Spanish]
Laura Hiros
I Can Only Imagine is a timely release for this Easter, delicately balancing the need to bring out the importance of forgiveness without being too evangelical. March 28, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
I Can Only Imagine is a timely release for this Easter, delicately balancing the need to bring out the importance of forgiveness without being too evangelical.
Lucas Wong
Though it will never be championed as an insightful work of either religious art or patriarchal psychology, I Can Only Imagine does manage to be a good film about a great song. March 23, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Though it will never be championed as an insightful work of either religious art or patriarchal psychology, I Can Only Imagine does manage to be a good film about a great song.
Simon Foster
It shattered expectations with $17.1 million opening weekend nation wide, is Roadside Attractions highest theatrical debut with #1 Per-Screen Average (More than $3K above Black Panther, has a lot going for it. March 22, 2018 | Rating: 5 | Full Review…
It shattered expectations with $17.1 million opening weekend nation wide, is Roadside Attractions highest theatrical debut with #1 Per-Screen Average (More than $3K above Black Panther, has a lot going for it.
Diana Saenger
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