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  • 2020
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone (Richard Gere) arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated not with confinement and electroshock therapy but with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three me...

Directed By: Jon Avnet

Written By: Eric Nazarian, Milton Rokeach, Jon Avnet

  • 2020
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 49 m

Three Christs

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
39
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone (Richard Gere) arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated not with confinement and electroshock therapy but with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three me...

Directed By: Jon Avnet

Written By: Eric Nazarian, Milton Rokeach, Jon Avnet

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
39
15% Positive
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54% Mixed
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31% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
39
15% Positive
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54% Mixed
7 Reviews
31% Negative
4 Reviews

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70
Jan 3, 2020
Gracefully directed by Fried Green Tomatoes and Justified director Jon Avnet, Three Christs is a great dark comedy about a dark subject. I can’t say enough how great the performances are. It’s a relevant character study on those who suffer from mental illness and the ones who treat it and why they do.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 9, 2020
Whether it is the star power of the cast or the seductiveness of the period recreation, Three Christs has an appealing professionalism — an odd fit for a film about challenging a profession.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
55
Jan 23, 2020
Avnet likely means well, just as Rokeach meant well. Three Christs needs more than a deep focus on the Christs themselves, and on the system that so utterly failed them. It needs to focus on Stone, and on the collision between ego and benevolence that led to The Three Christs of Ypsilanti’s birth. That should be the story.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
42
Jan 8, 2020
An insipid, boring mess, Three Christs doesn’t even have the decency to be amusing, apart from Stephen Root’s forced delivery of the film’s title followed by a what-a-world head shake.
By Vikram Murthi FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 8, 2020
The cast can’t cure all the movie’s problems, from its abrupt ending to a random acid-test scene, but it’s not without its curious appeal as a star-studded failed “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” experiment.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 6, 2020
By the end, it’s as if a good doctor’s god complex has been taken up by the film itself.
By Ed Gonzalez FULL REVIEW
25
Jan 8, 2020
Just an odd mess of a movie. That you feel anything at all is a tribute to the acting talent of Dinklage and Goggins, who occasionally make us care.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW

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17% Negative
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17% Negative
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Production Company Brooklyn Films, Highland Film Group (HFG), Narrative Capital
Release Date Jan 10, 2020
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating R
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