The Shack: reviews

What the critics say average 4.3 from 6 outlets

• 5.0 Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper 'The Shack' is a well-acted and sometimes moving but far too often slow-paced and unconvincing spiritual journey. Read
• 5.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman 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. Read
• 5.0 New York TimesNeil Genzlinger '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. Read
• 4.0 Time OutTomris Lafly For a faith-based film that aims to promote spiritual healing and prescribe forgiveness, 'The Shack' is almost unforgivably joyless and visually bland Read
• 4.0 Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang 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. Read
• 2.5 The A.V. ClubIgnatiy Vishnevetsky 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 Read