Gospel Hill

Gospel Hill (2009)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 39% of users liked it
    (577 ratings)

Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, and Samuel L. Jackson headline actor-turned-director Giancarlo Esposito's ensemble drama about a small southern town still haunted by a racially motivated murder that occurred there thirty years prior. Civil rights activist Peter Malcolm (Jackson) was… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Feb 9, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Feb 10, 2009
Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    So completely lacking in his eye for revealing detail and his ear for colloquial speech that it feels less like a movie than an incomplete first draft of a well-meaning if unsophisticated essay.

  • S. James Snyder, Time Out New York

    It's a familiar formula: Greedy suits touting high-rise schematics and targeting blue-collar citizens end up locking horns with a local firebrand. Guess who wins?

  • Ronnie Scheib, Variety

    The potentially thought-provoking concept of historical reconciliation is ill served by a half-baked script that reduces every cliched plot point to jaw-dropping levels of preachiness.

  • Kam Williams, Sly Fox

    A Sunday school parable about the difference between good versus evil. Can I get an Amen?

  • Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

    Subtleties are thin on the ground, but the elements of social injustice, racial tension and character conflicts make the film engaging enough

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  • Nicki M


    Okay to have on in the background, but not really exciting enough to want to sit and give it your undivided attention. I think I mainly rented this one as Julia Stiles was in it, Is a well acted movie, but never really rises above feeling like a made for tv film.

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