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Following a family tragedy that questions Macks belief, he journeys to find answers to thoughts that counters his innermost belief.
14 October 1972, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 May 1967, Delhi, Louisiana, USA
12 November 1973, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
28 January 1974, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2 August 1976, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK
22 December 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
April 17, 2017
The Christian God is rarely shown figuratively in movies, and The Shack is a good example of why not.March 03, 2017
Based on the sleeper bestseller by Canadian author William P. Young, The Shack offers an enlightening - if dispiriting - vantage on contemporary, non-denominational Christianity.March 03, 2017
The Shack wants to be a sincere exploration of faith and forgiveness but somehow manages to be both too innocuous and too off-putting for its own good.March 06, 2017
If Octavia Spencer is God, then Lord, take me to church.March 03, 2017
"The Shack" is a grief-packed journey through loss, bargaining and acceptance that feels like an overly long church sermon.March 20, 2017
The Shack successfully manages to challenge the narrow conceptions of what a Christian looks or sounds like - hence all of the debate and controversy.March 09, 2017
This one nevertheless falls short, thanks to the plodding direction of Stuart Hazeldine, who also lets Worthington engage in the kind of mumbling whisper that some actors mistake for intensity.April 05, 2017
British director Stuart Hazeldine cranks up the digital effects to give a fairly interesting interpretation of heaven, but they cannot make up for how this is a sermon, turned into a play, dressed up with computer-aided show-and-tell.April 08, 2017
The Shack will appeal to those who like Christian cinema and put the theme above the technical attributes. [Full review in Spanish]March 09, 2017
To the film's credit is its willingness to dip into the deep end of dark matters instead of shying away from harsh truths and hard-earned faithlessness. Still, The Shack plods toward the Almighty - even when its characters are walking on water.March 03, 2017
It's one of those movies where you'll either decide to give in right away and sob for two hours straight or opt to fight it while your resentment slowly simmers to a rolling boil.March 02, 2017
Most of its running time is taken with mollifying conversations between Mack and the movie's New Age-meets-Bible Belt oversimplifications of the Holy Trinity. It fits right into a long tradition of quasi-mystical pseudo-parables.