Critic Reviews

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  As stiff as it is sincere.

• Kate Shellnut, Houston Chronicle

  Movie goers likely will look over The Grace Card's entertainment value to focus on this simple prescription for how to gracefully love your neighbor.

• Joe Leydon, Variety

  Blessed with fine performances, credible dialogue and slick production values that belie a reportedly paltry budget, The Grace Card ranks among the better religious-themed indies released in recent years.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  It's OK to put out a movie with a message. But rendering even potentially dramatic stories so inoffensive that they bear no relation to reality makes for middling drama.

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  Despite its lapse into melodrama, this faith-based drama is surprisingly effective.

• Sean O'Connell, Washington Post

  "The Grace Card" is a Christian drama about a racist cop and his gospel-preaching partner who . . . hey, wait a second. Where are you going?

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  A modern morality play serving as a telling reminder about the real meaning of forgiveness.

• Mike Scott, Times-Picayune

  Dragged down by earnest but amateurish performances and an overall Afterschool Special vibe

• Jackie K. Cooper, jackiekcooper.com

  Not up to the level of "Facing the Giants" or "Fireproof" but a pretty amazing first try

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  A heartfelt and inspirational drama about the healing power of grace, reconciliation and forgiveness.

• Keith Cohen, Entertainment Spectrum

  This passionate faith-based movie offers moral encouragement and gives people an altruistic goal worth achieving. It deserves to be ranked alongside similar message-driven movies as "Facing the Giants" and "Fireproof."

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  ...not so much a bad movie as a timid one, in that it fails to fulfill the potential of its honestly not bad script, which raises some difficult questions ... and its denouement, however predictable, is genuinely moving.

• Kam Williams, TheLoop21.com

  A modern morality play offering a satisfying reminder about the real meaning of forgiveness.

• Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star

  This effort from writer/director David G. Evans gets points for soft-peddling dogma in favor of human stories. And the film benefits from a compelling performance by Michael Joiner, a Kansas City-based stand-up comic who provides a watchable center.

• Todd Hertz, Christianity Today

  The film is powerful when operating on the personal level of two men working out faith, but disappointing that their story is buried in a heavy-handed, manipulative plot.

• Nell Minow, Beliefnet

  This is an unpretentious but sincere film with quiet power, and its final scenes are moving and inspirational.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  The latest in the market-a-movie-to-churches trend, "The Grace Card" has the ring of a sermon about it.

• Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  The filmmakers seem more interested in coddling the converted than ministering to sinners.

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