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Variety
Paper-thin plot serves as a pretext for rousing gospel numbers in The Fighting Temptations, which straddles styles and eras to get everybody's toes tapping. Full Review
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
May not be great cinema, but it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Full Review
Dana Stevens
The New York Times
This movie feels phony and slick, as if it were cooked up by Darrin's cynical ad agency, rather than at his aunt's stove down in Montecarlo. Full Review
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
The movie's musical sequences, which primarily feature popularized versions of gospel standards, are exhilarating and energetic. Unfortunately, that's only half the story, because the so-called dramatic material, which links together all the musical numbers, is mind-numbingly bad. Full Review
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
To enjoy what's enjoyable in The Fighting Temptations, you've got to take in the music and shut out the words -- not the lyrics of the wonderful songs, but the dialogue stuffed into actors' mouths. Full Review
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