Sorry, /christian/, I missed whatever threads talked about this film, so can I get the tl;dr version – we're in agreement this is going to be (mildly?) anti-Christian tosh, or at best non-Biblical retelling of Christ, right?
In other words, avoid like the plague?
>This movie, from screenwriters Helen Edmundson and Philippa Goslett and director Garth Davis, sets itself a bold task: to rescue Mary Magdalene from an age-old tradition of patriarchal condescension and misinterpretation.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/27/mary-magdalene-review-rooney-mara-sunday-school-myths
>Around the 3rd century, the controversial Gnostic Gospel of Philip slanderously claimed that Jesus and Mary had a romantic relationship, a notion that has been condemned and is not accepted as canonical by the Christian church. And although having a romantic couple (Phoenix and Mara are dating) play the lead role of Jesus and Mary, upon seeing the first look at the trailer of "Mary Magdalene" it appears that the creators did not go down that route with the film.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/joaquin-phoenix-rooney-mara-play-jesus-and-mary-in-mary-magdalene-film-trailer-208449/
>Jesus, in the film, is ‘‘just a man’’ [says Joaquin Phoenix]
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/2017/09/mary-magdalenes-joaquin-phoenix-says-jesus-just-man.html
>It holds a 20% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 5 reviews, with a weighted average of 6/10.[21] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 44 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene_(2018_film)
BUT
Paul, Apostle of Christ is definitely recommended. (The writer-director makes Christian films for a living.)
Yes, yes, a thread had to die for this. Have you SEEN the crap that just dropped off page 15?