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  Review by Adam Friedland 4

  Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesus of Nazareth, the son of god, a proud Italian

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  Review by siobhan ★★★½ 3

  convinced that willem dafoe as jesus, david bowie as pontius pilate, and harvey keitel as judas with an italian-american accent shouting “whaddaya doin building crosses?” is historically accurate and that this was not a fiction but a documentary

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  Review by Karst ★★★★½ 19

  I worship Paul Schrader, even though Paul Schrader has made it clear in multiple films that I shouldn’t worship Paul Schrader.

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★★ 18

  Before I begin, I would like everyone to understand that I grew up in a strictly Christian background (which I am thankful for and still adhere to). So when I speak about my beliefs, I'm not attempting to generalize everyone in the same boat as I am, religiously speaking, but rather I am trying explain the environment and beliefs that I personally was raised on (which, again, I still stick to and am eternally grateful for). 

  I avoided Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ for years because I was under the impression that it was a direct butchering of biblical facts. I was assuming that Scorsese was taking what God explicitly had written in the Bible and twisted it…

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  Review by lauren ★★★★½ 2

  fleabag may have hot priest but the last temptation of christ has hot jesus

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★

  Ironically, it is this mortal treatment of Jesus as a man that makes me more willing to think of him as a divine figure than the purified Gospels.

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  Review by annabelle ★★★½ 2

  harvey keitel as judas be like eeeyyyyyy jesus i’m prayin here now kiss me square on the mouth you sonofabitch

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★★½ 4

  Unbelievable to me that Christians were offended by this movie, which takes seriously the idea that Christ was fully human and fully divine, and portrays him as scared and conflicted and joyous and even angry as he is in the Gospels. An incredibly compelling take on the Christian story, and one of Scorsese’s best, imo.

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  Review by liam f ★★★★ 5

  say what you will about this film, but you have to admire the stroke of genius that led to the casting of Willem Dafoe in his very own biopic

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★★ 2

  “I'm a liar. A hypocrite. I'm afraid of everything. I never tell the truth. I don't have the courage. When I see a woman, I blush and look away. But inside I have lust. For God, I smother the lust, and that satisfies my pride. But my pride destroys Magdalene. I never steal or fight or kill; not because I don't want to but because I'm afraid. I want to rebel against everything, everybody...against God! But I'm afraid. If you look inside me you see fear, that's all. Fear is my mother, my father, my God.”

  Faith in flux. The constant is revolution. [35mm]

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  71/100

  [originally written on my blog]

  Let's not pretend this movie isn't blasphemous. It clearly is. (Fine by me, since as far as I'm concerned it replaces one largely made-up story with another, far more compelling one.) Protesters in '88 who hadn't seen it and got worked up about Jesus boning Mary Magdalene were misplacing their proxy wrath—the real fuck-you to true believers occurs later in the temptation, when Paul tells Jesus that it doesn't matter whether or not he died and was resurrected, so long as people believe that he did/was. That the film ultimately has Jesus accept the cross and die exultant doesn't really contradict this very secular thesis, as Kazantzakis never provides a decent counter-argument explaining why…

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★★½

  casting all New York Jews as apostles was a very nice touch