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The Passion of the Christ (2004)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Phil Kloer "This is a movie so singular, so intense, so overwhelming that it simply has to be experienced." more... B+ Boston Globe Ty Burr "If Passion is powerful...it is only through the bludgeoning, forensic intensity with which the film dwells on Christ's suffering." more... C+ Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "I was moved by the depth of feeling, by the skill of the actors and technicians, by their desire to see this project through no matter what." more... A   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "...a passionate but gruesomely physical picture." more... B- E! Online "...Gibson's film is more of a study in brutality than an exploration of Christ's message." more... C   filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "...an exquisite spiritual masterpiece..." more... A- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "This graphic depiction of the crucifixion of Christ misses any spiritual meaning to this seismic event." more... C   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...a highly personal, provocative and in some ways riveting vision with an inspired performance by Jim Caviezel as Jesus." more... B   New York Times A.O. Scott "The Passion of the Christ is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus' final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath..." more... D   ReelViews James Berardinelli "...this is a picture of acting and images, with Jim Caviezel's unforgettable performance dominating throughout." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "The Passion of the Christ is powerfully moving and fanatically obtuse in equal doses." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "The Passion of the Christ should have left audiences in a state of exaltation. Instead it just leaves audiences exhausted." more... C   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...strikes me as being much less faithful to the Gospels than the earlier Christ movies." more... C- USA Today Claudia Puig "...there is enlightenment — even stark poetry — in The Passion." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)