The Other Side of Heaven 2001

Critics score:
29 / 100

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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: If the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you, the simplistic Heaven will quite likely be more like hell. Read more

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Al Brumley, Dallas Morning News: There's a disturbing 'Great White Hope' undertone to The Other Side of Heaven that subtly undermines its message of Christian love and compassion. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Captures a breathtaking exotic landscape cluttered only by the smugness of its characters. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The movie's vision of a white American zealously spreading a Puritanical brand of Christianity to South Seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish. Read more

Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: As exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical Pax viewer, the rest of us will be lulled into a coma. Read more

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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism. Read more

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Ed Park, Village Voice: Perhaps even the SLC high command found writer-director Mitch Davis's wall of kitsch hard going. Read more