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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaGracefully 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.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreDevolves from quiet character study into full-blown, over-the-top “star vehicle” in its last act.
- 60The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergWhether 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.
- 42The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiThe A.V. ClubVikram MurthiAn 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.
- 40TheWrapMonica CastilloTheWrapMonica CastilloThe 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.
- 40Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLike the original experiment, this film fails when it tries to impose a conclusion, rather than letting its meaning reveal itself naturally.
- 38Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezBy the end, it’s as if a good doctor’s god complex has been taken up by the film itself.
- 38RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyRogerEbert.comTomris LafflyThree Christs opts in for frustratingly broad characters that feel like half-considered caricatures and Jeff Russo’s sentimental, strings-heavy score that flattens whatever modest edge the movie might have had.
- 30VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeAs audiences, we trust filmmakers to do a reasonably accurate job of representing stories based in truth, and we get angry when they take the kind of liberties Avnet and company allow themselves here. As if it weren’t bad enough that Three Christs were boring, it’s impossible to believe, and for that, there is no cure.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJust 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.