Faith-Based Films Labeled 'Rotten Tomatoes' by Critics Despite Love From Fans; Are Christian Values too 'Offensive' for Mainstream Reviewers?

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Christian movies have been dominating the box office for the past couple of years which has lead to audiences raving about the quality and messages of the films. However, mainstream critics have incessantly criticized the works and presented bad reviews. Is this part of some ploy to discredit movies of faith?

See our break down below of the reviews found on Rotten Tomatoes (RT) of all of your favorite Faith-based flicks:

'Little Boy' was just released in 2015 by Open Road Films and has made $28M at the box office to date. The film is a powerful and moving film about a little boy who is willing to do whatever it takes to bring his dad home from World War II alive.

Despite its 89% approval rating from its audiences, critics on RT gave it a 4.4 out of a 10 ranking. Their assessment showed that only 15% of the critics gave it a positive review.

The critics' consensus said that the powerful film was "well-meaning but manipulative on a horrifically misguided scale, Little Boy is the rare faith-based film that many viewers may find legitimately offensive."

Publications like The Blaze combated the dreadful review and the article encouraged us to look further into other faith-based films that are unfairly rated by the popular mainstream movie review site.

The Pure Flix motion picture 'Do You Believe?' also came out this year following its successful year in 2014. The film has made $12.5M to date and although receiving an 86% approval rating from its audiences, critics gave it a 4.2 out of 10 rating. With only 19% of the critics giving it a positive review.

'Do You Believe?' is about a dozen different souls-all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they discover there is power in the Cross of Christ.

Although Pure Flix's 2014 movie 'God's Not Dead' shattered box office records for an independent film ranking in $60.8M. RT gave it 2.9 out of 10 rating. Despite the bad rating, 79% of its audience approved of the film.

'God's Not Dead' is about a present-day college freshman and devout Christian, Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), who finds his faith challenged on his first day of Philosophy class by the dogmatic and argumentative Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo).

Following the success of their mini-series 'The Bible' Mark Burnett and Roma Downey released the biblical epic 'Son of God' in 2014. The movie was about the story of Jesus' life, taking audiences through a compelling cinematic storytelling that is both powerful and inspirational.

'Son of God' earned $59.7M at the box office and was given a 73% approval rating from its audience's on RT but critics gave it a 4.7 out of 10 rating. 21% of the critics gave it a positive review.

BREATHEcast decided to delve a bit deeper through the years to see if the mainstream critics had the same reaction to other Christian films that had an impact.

The Kendrick brothers have done an incredible job in making faith-based films hit the core of their audience.

Every one of their films (Courageous, Fireproof, Facing the Giants..) although all accumulating millions at the box office and receiving rave reviews from audiences were branded "Rotten Tomatoes" on the movie review site.

The only faith based film that came close to half of a good rating from the critics at Rotten Tomatoes was Mel Gibson's 2004 film, 'The Passion of the Christ' which depicted the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus. The film made a staggering $370.2M at the box-office becoming one of the highest grossing films of all time.

It received an 80% approval rating from its audiences and critics gave it a 5.9 out of 10 rating. The overall consensus from RT said, "The graphic details of Jesus' torture make the movie tough to sit through and obscure whatever message it is trying to convey."

The interesting thing was discovering what films were rated "Fresh Tomatoes" on RT. The Bible epic 'Noah' received a 77% approval rating from the critics despite the audience not liking it at all because it veered so far away from scripture.

Are faith-based films as bad as RT says or do you agree with the majority of the audiences? Tell us what you think and leave your comments below.