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By Joe C (1,448) on 29 Nov 2013

I can imagine if someone made a movie called White Nativity... walked out the first ten minutes of it…

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By Dennis B (266) on 28 Nov 2013

I would have liked a little more of the Langston Hughes show, but Jacob Latimore was amazing. Enjoyed it…

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By Tom B (1,265) on 28 Nov 2013

This was one of the best Holiday movies I've seen in a long time…

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By Gerard W (7) on 28 Nov 2013

I love this movie. I even love that part when Langston's dad said one of Langston Hughes' poems…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 28 Nov 2013

Like Eve's Bayou, her best-known movie, Kasi Lemmons' Black Nativity presents a child's view of a troubled family…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 28 Nov 2013

Takes Hughes' nativity story and shoves it into the far background of a sincere but tritely told modern drama about family, faith, and redemption…

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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 Reese M (4) on 28 Nov 2013

I saw it with my girlfriend and it was a great movie! Big name actors and a good plot. It was short and sweet too…

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By Pepper B (40) on 27 Nov 2013

Black Nativity was music to my ears... Whoa. This musical was beautiful. It'll touch your heart…

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By Nancy J (36) on 27 Nov 2013

A pretty good movie. Could have had more of a storyline. It was like going to a great church service with a wonderful lesson taught…

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By Adam R (2,773) on 27 Nov 2013

We get it, you're black...now, when's the movie going to start…

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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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