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For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada

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Mexico · 2012
Rated R · 2h 25m
Director Dean Wright
Starring Eva Longoria, Andy García, Oscar Isaac, Peter O'Toole
Genre History, Drama

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

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Time Out by

Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, but let's not get carried away here.

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Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker

The film is awash in blandly brown-toned cinematography, action scenes more violent than rousing, and a whole host of bathetic subplots.

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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

The actor (Garcia), whose banked anger has been a secret weapon since "The Untouchables" 25 years ago, paints a fascinating portrait of a man moved by fate.

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The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

With its shameless melodrama, ghoulish violence, and scenes of Christians being slaughtered en masse in holy places for the crime of publicly being Christians, the religious drama For Greater Glory feels an awful lot like evangelical Tribulation dramas such as "Left Behind: The Movie" and "The Omega Code."

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

In its use of locations and sets, it's an impressive achievement by director Dean Wright, whose credits include some of the effects on the "Lord of the Rings" films. If it had not hewed so singlemindedly to the Catholic view and included all religions under the banner of religious liberty, I believe it would have been more effective.

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Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

Some bad movies can make you feel awful for the people who made them and worse for the audience that shows up. The actors, the script, the camera: There's nowhere good they can go. For Greater Glory is that kind of bad movie: a total embarrassment.

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