- Studio: New Line Cinema
- Release Date: Dec 1, 2006
- Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Summary: The Nativity Story chronicles the arduous journey of two people, Mary and Joseph, a miraculous pregnancy, and the history-defining birth of Jesus. (New Line Cinema)
- Director: Catherine Hardwicke
- Genre(s): Drama, Family
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 28
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Mixed: 15 out of 28
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Negative: 3 out of 28
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80Unfolds in a scrupulously accurate historical adventure story that depicts the world of Jesus' birth with an exciting you-are-there verisimilitude.
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There are a few quietly affecting scenes here, in which we see Mary and Joseph as the terribly frightened newlyweds they probably were, unsure of what to make of their extraordinary circumstances. But too often, the actors register as little more than set dressing and, despite Hardwicke's resolve to give us the realNativity as we've never seen it before, much of the movie smacks of convention.
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60I have to hand it to Hardwicke: I was a lot less bored by The Nativity Story than I feared I'd be.
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30Fatuous, sappy, and dull.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 24
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Mixed: 1 out of 24
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Negative: 4 out of 24
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ellab10
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MarkBayer8
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ChadS.7
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JerryA.3
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