This movie thinly scatters a parable’s worth of plot across 134 minutes and resembles HBO’s Deadwood recut for Sunday-school purposes: pious, puzzling and punitive, with a sternly wagging finger never far from entering the frame.
Read full articleRedeeming Love could have tried to reach a broader audience but settles for preaching to the choir.
Read full article"Love" might be best embraced by the faithful, but it is well made and has much to say about the healing power of love and how we all deserve second chances.
Read full articleRedeeming Love is like the most expensive community theatre production you've ever seen. The acting is just not there.
Read full articleIt's so hard to shake the lingering icky feelings about this text, which plays like "tradwife" fan fiction, the 19th-century setting protecting the story from the pesky "women's lib" movement, which would suggest that Angel have her own autonomy.
Read full articleThe leads are earnest, but lack chemistry, while the script rams its points home like a piledriver.
Read full articleRedeeming Love fails as both a compelling romance and an effective drama, failing to do its dazzling leading lady -- or anyone else -- justice whatsoever.
Read full articleRedeeming Love left me conflicted. On the one hand, the film feels like a step forward for faith-based entertainment reaching a mainstream audience. On the other hand, Redeeming Love still has some problems.
Read full articleCaruso knows he can spend plenty of time in the whorehouse, because his movie will end on the side of the angels.
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