{"id":57040,"date":"2017-01-13T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/crux_steven_greydanus-2016_delivered_a_mixed_bag_for_jesus_on_the_big_scree\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:00:53","slug":"crux_steven_greydanus-2016_delivered_a_mixed_bag_for_jesus_on_the_big_scree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57040","title":{"rendered":"(Crux) Steven Greydanus-2016 delivered a mixed bag for Jesus on the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which, if any, of these films are actually worth seeing?<\/p>\n<p>Critics weren\u2019t bowled over by any of them. The best reviewed of the lot was \u201cHail, Caesar!\u201d\u009d, the least acclaimed Coen film since 2008\u2019s \u201cBurn After Reading.\u201d\u009d Audiences were more negative and box office was disappointing. At any rate, I thoroughly enjoyed it; I might almost be the ideal audience for this film, though it doesn\u2019t seem to play as well for everyone as it does for me.<\/p>\n<p>That goes double for \u201cThe Young Messiah,\u201d\u009d a film few critics found as compelling and creative as I did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/commentary\/2017\/01\/06\/2016-delivered-mixed-bag-jesus-big-screen\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which, if any, of these films are actually worth seeing? Critics weren\u2019t bowled over by any of them. The best reviewed of the lot was \u201cHail, Caesar!\u201d\u009d, the least acclaimed Coen film since 2008\u2019s \u201cBurn After Reading.\u201d\u009d Audiences were more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57040\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}