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By Witney Seibold (272) for CraveOnline (813) on 28 Nov 2013

Kasi Lemmon's Black Nativity tries to be many things at once, and it's astonishing how well all of the pieces fall together…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 28 Nov 2013

What lingers strongly in the memory and heart is, as it should be, the sweet, celebratory sensation of song…

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By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Nov 2013

The bare-bones plot, propped up by redundant R&B tunes, hinges on revelations so obvious, you won't need a prophet to call them out…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Nov 2013

By the time the chorus of churchgoers end the film with a spirited rendition of Stevie Wonder’s rousing “As” following a demonstration…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 27 Nov 2013

It's in moments like that that Black Nativity really sings; the rest of the time it operates at a familiar hum…

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By Sandy Schaefer (333) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 27 Nov 2013

Black Nativity is ungainly in execution, yet still infused with enough passion and reverence for Hughes' original work to be more success than…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 27 Nov 2013

There's a wealth of talent, most of it poorly used, in this disappointingly misconceived holiday offering…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Nov 2013

Sensory pleasures abound in Black Nativity, which is grounded by Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett’s performances as Langston’s strict,…

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By Mary Houlihan (45) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 27 Nov 2013

Lemmons and her cast, aided by some great music, have created an interlude sure to lift the spirit during the holiday season…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 Nov 2013

Though Lemmons’s parable-like intentions are clear, almost every beat of Langston’s tale, with its absent father figures and heated gun-pointing…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 27 Nov 2013

The corny, greeting-card feel of the second half weakens what begins as a creatively rendered take on a holiday film…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 27 Nov 2013

Hudson soars (duh) on the vocal numbers, and Whitaker (double duh) is a tower of integrity and crushingly human…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 27 Nov 2013

Black Nativity offers a whopping serving of Yuletide emotion. And it's a musical - with plenty of wailing and rapping on the side…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 27 Nov 2013

It's good to see Hudson in a major film again…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Nov 2013

I'm glad to see [Lemmons] working, but this tired product won't do anything for her reputation…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 27 Nov 2013

Seeing Black Nativity is like an early Christmas gift…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 27 Nov 2013

The problem isn't that the movie wears its religious intent on its sleeve but that it uses religion as an easy, all-purpose fix to…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Film.com (1,892) on 27 Nov 2013

While the film certainly targets a particular audiences, those viewers who don’t fall squarely into that demographic should nevertheless…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 27 Nov 2013

While Black Nativity often lacks polish and restraint, at least it never lacks for soul…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Nov 2013

Black Nativity is a cut-rate musical melodrama that grafts overreaching references to black culture onto a facile family-values narrative…

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