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  • 2018
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  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Internationally-renowned pastor Carlton Pearson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) — experiencing a crisis of faith — risks his church, family, and future when he questions church doctrine and finds himself branded a modern-day heretic.

Directed By: Joshua Marston

Written By: Marcus Hinchey, Russell Cobb, Alex Blumberg

  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 46 m

Come Sunday

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Internationally-renowned pastor Carlton Pearson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) — experiencing a crisis of faith — risks his church, family, and future when he questions church doctrine and finds himself branded a modern-day heretic.

Directed By: Joshua Marston

Written By: Marcus Hinchey, Russell Cobb, Alex Blumberg

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
9 Reviews
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
7% Negative
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100
Apr 12, 2018
By allowing Ejiofor the time and narrative space, even allowing many of the sermons to play out in full, to express Pearson’s confliction, Marston has created one of the more restrained explorations of faith in quite some time.
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Apr 12, 2018
The movie's pounding heart is the remarkable Ejiofor. Imbuing his role with authority, charisma, mighty strength and wrenching human frailty, he's enough to make believers of all of us.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 12, 2018
Ejiofor’s performance make the movie; the rest, you may just have to take on faith.
By Leah Greenblatt FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 12, 2018
The movie that’s happening in Ejiofor’s eyes is far more wracked and compelling than the one that Marston shows us through his own.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 11, 2018
Despite committed performances from most of the cast (especially Ejiofor, who imbues Pearson with a gentle yet stubborn spirit), Come Sunday can’t shake its middling script and perfunctory direction.
By Vikram Murthi FULL REVIEW
42
Apr 12, 2018
Come Sunday makes an admirable effort to delve into religious conviction and changes in faith, but comes up feeling too normal and disconnected from those matters.
By Daniel Schindel FULL REVIEW
38
Apr 9, 2018
In the film, Joshua Marston leaches the narrative of nearly all the social texture that infused and empowered “Heretics,” the 2005 episode of the This American Life podcast that inspired this biopic.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Endgame Entertainment, This American Life
Release Date Apr 13, 2018
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating TV-14
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Tagline Believer. Preacher. Heretic.
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