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The Shack

2017

Stuart Hazeldine

Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell ...

5.0

2,683

Drama A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called "The Shack."

	Author	Review
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"The questions are profound, and so is the tedium"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It reduces faith to a kind of spiritual comfort food"	NEG
United States	Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"Newcomers might find themselves wondering what all the fuss is about as they watch this awkwardly-constructed work (...) [It] manages to be both too innocuous and too off-putting for its own good (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"A bit more editing to remove some of the airiness would have made for a better film."	NEU
United States	Edward Douglas New York Daily News	"There must have been redeeming qualities in William P. Young’s novel 'The Shack' for it to become such a popular bestseller in 2007. Those traits have mostly gone missing in the film."	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'The Shack' is a marginally better movie than “Collateral Beauty,” though their doctrinal differences shouldn’t obscure the fact that they’re swimming in more or less the same pool of therapeutic kitsch."	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"The film takes us a progressive look at the Holy Trinity, but that's the only new trick it pulls."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"One of the most bizarre films to be released this year (...) This is happy-clappy, tree-hugging, New-Age-Christian propaganda, very hard to make sense of or to digest (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This unsubtle, pedagogic faith-driven drama could have been crazily brilliant but is swamped by bad writing, cardboard characters and infantile theology (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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