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Film · Pure Flix · 2014

God's Not Dead

Name: God's Not Dead scores 45 — Live Historic
Item: God's Not Dead
Rating: 45
Author: Live Historic

45Watch it awake.

The refusal is brave. The argument is a straw man. Do not hand this to someone you hope to persuade.

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The review

A professor who requires a class to deny God is a real kind of pressure, usually in a quieter form than this. The film cannot trust the quieter form, so it builds a villain and lets a freshman dismantle him over a pop soundtrack. I believe the student is right to refuse. I do not believe this is what thinking looks like, and a faith that only wants opponents made of straw is getting ready to lose a real room.

If a teenager watches it, watch it with them and argue with the film. Ask what the strongest objection actually is. The charge is to know that objection better than this script does, and to be willing to lose a grade without needing the room to applaud.

Journal

Keep God's Not Dead in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Republic and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Uptown Girls

58 instead of 45

Uptown Girls is still a drama film, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A neglected girl, a sick mother, a woman who becomes responsible.

The eight

4
Industry
A student does the assignment with effort. The professor is a cartoon of a job.
4
Household
Families are sketched around the debate. Few of them are a real house.
6
Piety
The creed is named and not apologized for. The naming is the film's nerve.
6
Courage
A young man risks a grade. That part is real and small and good.
4
Republic
A university is a public. This one is a stage.
5
Temperance
It flatters the audience that already agrees. That is an appetite.
3
Truth
The opposing case is not allowed to be the best version of itself.
4
Stewardship
What it hands a young Christian is a fantasy of winning a room, which is a poor preparation.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2025

A Minecraft Movie

45Watch it awake.

The craft is the good idea. The joke is louder than the craft. Children will come anyway.

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The review

A game about placing blocks is one of the few popular games that is secretly about work. The film knows that for a few minutes at a time, and then it remembers it is a brand and starts shouting. Children went in enormous numbers. The number of tickets is not the measure. The measure is whether they come home wanting to make something or wanting the next joke.

Watch it with them if they are going anyway. Afterwards put a real material in their hands — paper, wood, dough — and build one thing that is not a reference. That is the part the film kept dropping.

Journal

Keep A Minecraft Movie in the record.