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The Young Messiah
Mary, Joseph and 7-year-old Jesus embark on a journey from Egypt to Nazareth after the young boy miraculously brings someone back to life. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.
7 December 1945, Hampshire, England, UK
28 September 1959, Tangier, Tangier-Tetouan, Morocco
25 May 1934, Liverpool, England, UK
1 May 1970, Zurich, Switzerland
March 16, 2016
It's only suspenseful if you aren't familiar with the story of Christ -- but if you aren't, there's no reason you'd be watching this.
March 11, 2016
This pious drama is a work of minimal imagination and even less subtlety.
March 14, 2016
The Young Messiah struggles to hold its audience's attention.
August 02, 2016
The Young Messiah takes a different approach by focusing on a specific point in Jesus's childhood. But the faith-based film drags, and is mostly unremarkable.
March 12, 2016
We know how the story ends, so there's little in the way of tension.
April 05, 2016
'The Young Messiah' helps fill in the blanks.
March 11, 2016
Perhaps realizing that enticing nonbelievers into another movie about the life of Christ may necessitate the wild-style of a director like Darren Aronofsky, the filmmakers decided to play it safe rather than risk conservative Evangelical rejection.
March 22, 2016
The problem here is not its one- sidedness, but its one-dimensionality.
March 12, 2016
This uninspiring, borderline inept spiritual drama about the Son of God's formative years preaches to the choir.
March 18, 2016
Mostly the movie is simply dull, emotionally flat and so solemnly reverent that it's dramatically inert.
December 05, 2016
[Non-Christians] will find this trudge through Jesus' childhood years laborious, even though it thankfully refrains from proselytising.
March 14, 2016
"The Young Messiah" performs no miracles.
