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The Gospel Coalition

The Gospel Coalition is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Brett McCracken.

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Brett McCracken As Blanc probes the guilt or innocence of murder suspects, Johnson is also weighing the merits of different expressions of Christianity. The picture that emerges isn’t entirely surprising.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
David (2025) Brett McCracken Certainly the best Bible-themed animated musical since DreamWorks’s Prince of Egypt (1998), and arguably more biblically faithful and artistically rich.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Brett McCracken It’s one life as a lens to contemplate the cosmos. The universe in a Grainier of sand.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Brett McCracken Del Toro’s adaptation wisely foregrounds the story’s technological critique, which feels especially urgent.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Brett McCracken Films like Nuremberg remind us that in the moment, evil can take a surreptitious shape—especially when it’s reinforced in society-wide patterns of confirmation bias.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Brett McCracken Roofman’s ending is redemptive and cathartic, but also a gut-punch.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lost Bus (2025) Brett McCracken Like much of Greengrass’s other work (United 93, Captain Phillips), the movie is a heart-pounding, white-knuckle survival thriller. But it’s also a story about fatherhood.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Light of the World (2025) Brett McCracken If you have kids, take them to see The Light of the World. It’s a worthy and edifying cinematic experience—especially compared to the alternatives in pop culture today.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Brett McCracken After decades of comic-book universes with ever more diminishing returns (both artistically and commercially), superhero fatigue is real. Audiences are ready for a factory reset. This movie gives it to them.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Brett McCracken The refreshing message that comes through [in Materialists] is that marriage, however hard, is absolutely worth the arduous work of dating. And that’s probably a message today’s marriage-leery, anxious generation needs to hear.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Brett McCracken It feels more like a relic of the aughts heyday of New Atheism than a product of the present vibe shift.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Brett McCracken While often insightful about the way we’re tempted and how evil can be naively trifled with, Coogler’s movie doesn’t have a robust view of indwelling sin and moral culpability.
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Eric LaRue (2023) Brett McCracken Sadly, even though faith shows up often in Eric LaRue, it feels more counterproductive than helpful. As the film ends, Janice especially seems as lost as she did at the start.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Juror #2 (2024) Brett McCracken Juror #2 ponders the cost of integrity and challenges audiences to consider whether they’d do the right thing even if it would ruin their life.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Here (2023) Brett McCracken It’s a love story only in the subtlest, gentlest ways—not only between a man and a woman but between both of them and the places they inhabit. It’s a movie that calls us to look closer and appreciate the world around us and the people placed in our path.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Brett McCracken This is a funny-sad film in the best sense, exploring the ways that laughter, tears, and art (Chopin’s piano compositions figure prominently) can help us cope with life’s immense pain.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Brett McCracken Anyone with the slightest appreciation for Bob Dylan’s lyrical brilliance and cultural significance will find much to like about A Complete Unknown.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Flow (2024) Brett McCracken Its photorealistic animation, memorable musical score, and narrative ambiguity combine to create an unforgettable moviegoing experience.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Brett McCracken What Ross does with the camera’s point of view powerfully reinforces the movie’s themes of being invisible vs. being seen, the evil dehumanization of racism vs. inherent human dignity.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Brett McCracken There’s something real in history that Gladiator II gestures toward subtly without mentioning it explicitly more than once. It’s the looming transformation of Rome from pagan decadence and conquering bloodlust to an unlikely accelerant of Christianity.
Posted Dec 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Brett McCracken The songs and costumes are fun. The vibes are pleasant. But the moral ideas—however well intentioned—are ultimately incoherent and unhelpful.
Posted Nov 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024) Brett McCracken I most appreciate how the film captures the bond between fathers and sons, and the particular challenge a dad faces when it comes to balancing risk, protection, freedom, and responsibility.
Posted Nov 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Blitz (2024) Brett McCracken The film captures the hope-filled resilience of children, who sometimes surprise us adults with the fortitude, innocent wonder, and solidarity they can muster even under great duress.
Posted Nov 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) Brett McCracken In the end Conclave’s potency is compromised by its inability to conceal clear bias in a certain direction.
Posted Oct 25, 2024  Edit critic review
The Wild Robot (2024) Brett McCracken Kids will find a lot to like here: laughs, tears, cute animals, awesome visuals. Moms and dads will appreciate (maybe with misty eyes) the film’s tender reflections on the sacrificial love of parenthood.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Reagan (2024) Brett McCracken Reagan captures a bygone era of dignity, class, and conviction in political leadership that feels refreshing.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
My Penguin Friend (2024) Brett McCracken It’s an inspiring story for sure, but it also takes grief and suffering seriously.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024) Brett McCracken A thoughtful reflection on the challenge of forgiveness and the complexities of familial reconciliation.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Apollo 13: Survival (2024) Brett McCracken While it may lack the emotional texture of Howard’s film, it still offers audiences a gripping and inspiring story involving bravery, scientific ingenuity, and heroic collaboration toward a shared goal.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Join or Die (2023) Brett McCracken The film’s implications go beyond politics and have huge relevance for the church.
Posted Sep 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Sing Sing (2023) Brett McCracken It’s no accident that Shakespeare figures prominently in Sing Sing. The Bard often explored parallels between life and the theatrical arts, recognizing that fundamental to being human is the ability to not just “be” or “not be” but to become.
Posted Aug 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Thelma (2024) Brett McCracken In Thelma we see how community is essential for building confidence and taking healthy risks.
Posted Aug 02, 2024  Edit critic review
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Brett McCracken In the film’s sci-fi world, noise is death and quiet is life. Could there be a better metaphor for the dynamics of our digital age?
Posted Jul 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Inside Out 2 (2024) Brett McCracken For Gen Z and Alpha audiences (and their parents)—those navigating today’s “anxious generation” world with a hyperattuned (maybe overattuned) emotional vocabulary—Inside Out 2 is unsurprisingly resonant.
Posted Jun 18, 2024  Edit critic review
The Fall Guy (2024) Brett McCracken It’s hyperaware of its artifice. And yet the film’s central romance is sweet and sincere and appeals to the audience’s nostalgic hunger for earnest, straightforward love stories in movies.
Posted May 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Brett McCracken It’s not the film’s content that captures the zeitgeist so much as the interpretive chaos it spawns.
Posted Apr 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Girls State (2024) Brett McCracken Girls State examines the political passions of Gen Z women and provides on-the-ground evidence of the growing gender divergence.
Posted Apr 06, 2024  Edit critic review
The Taste of Things (2023) Brett McCracken To watch the film’s long sequences of lovingly prepared feasts, intricately choreographed in a rustic French kitchen, is to see something of the genius of humanity’s God-given, image-bearing vocation to bring order out of chaos.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Cabrini (2024) Brett McCracken I was impressed with its scale and elegance and especially with the lead performance by Italian actress Cristiana Dell’Anna.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Arthur the King (2024) Brett McCracken An inspiring adventure tale of friendship, compassion, and perseverance.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Perfect Days (2023) Brett McCracken Perfect Days doesn’t paint a rosy picture of a falsely “perfect” world; it models a way of seeing the world that finds joy in the hard, the easy, and everything in between.
Posted Mar 21, 2024  Edit critic review
One Life (2023) Brett McCracken It shows the legacy of heroes who champion life’s dignity in a world that often cheapens it.
Posted Mar 21, 2024  Edit critic review
American Fiction (2023) Brett McCracken Monk decries the audience’s hunger for black books that “flatten our lives.” It’s an understandable frustration, but sadly, American Fiction inflicts the same flattening on Monk himself.
Posted Mar 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Maestro (2023) Brett McCracken Maestro is fixated on Bernstein’s sexuality—as if it’s the most interesting thing about him.
Posted Mar 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Dune: Part Two (2024) Brett McCracken As much as Dune Two plays with religious archetypes and the universal appeal of “messiah” narratives, it adopts a decidedly skeptical posture toward the religious enterprise.
Posted Mar 01, 2024  Edit critic review
The Iron Claw (2023) Brett McCracken The film’s deeper layers contain sobering insights about fatherhood and the ways a dad’s decisions and behavior can set his family on a course toward either life or death.
Posted Jan 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Freud's Last Session (2023) Brett McCracken The film has an odd, cold tone that fails to capture the lively fireworks of a would-be battle between towering intellects.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Love at First Sight (2023) Brett McCracken The heavy emphasis on fate or providence as an active force (literally, the third major character) makes the movie especially comforting in this moment of relational anxiety.
Posted Nov 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Fingernails (2023) Brett McCracken The premise—that a new scientific test can definitively determine whether a couple is in love—is arguably more interesting than the narrative as a whole.
Posted Nov 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Journey to Bethlehem (2023) Brett McCracken Journey doesn’t offer audiences an escape from the noise of contemporary culture into an encounter with sacred truth. Rather, it adds to the noise—and at great decibels.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
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