The Shack's reviews
Media reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
'The Shack' is a well-acted and sometimes moving but far too often slow-paced and unconvincing spiritual journey.
Variety
The strangest thing about 'The Shack', and the reason it?s finally a so-so movie, is that all the rage and terror and dark-side vengeance that Mack has to learn to transcend is something we?re told about, but we never actually see him mired in it.
New York Times
'The Shack', a Christian-themed movie with laudable ambitions, will resonate with lots of people who feel Hollywood does not generally understand or care about their world.
Time Out
For a faith-based film that aims to promote spiritual healing and prescribe forgiveness, 'The Shack' is almost unforgivably joyless and visually bland
Los Angeles Times
However universal the perennial questions and struggles that 'The Shack' illuminates, under Stuart Hazeldine?s plodding direction, its faith-based brand of self-help feels like being trapped in someone else?s spiritual retreat ? in real time.
The A.V. Club
There?s nothing about this unconscionably long movie (it runs a whopping 132 minutes) that suggests anyone involved ever watched it from start to finish