Metacritic reviews

It’s an enjoyable ride, but probably not one you need to take twice.

Its intentions are, to some degree, corrective: It mocks some of the popular corruptions of faith so as to invite the audience to reflect upon what real faith might be.

This is ninety minutes of comic actors having a genial go at middle-of-the-road material. It doesn’t have any guts, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t funny.

There’s a sense that the goings-on are more quirky than comical.

The expected satire of religious gullibility and charlatanism proves toothless; worse, a cast of very funny people is given very little funny to do.

Both Rockwell and Clement are back for the latest Hess production, Don Verdean, which can’t even work up enough comic energy to be considered bad.

If the film is any indication, Jared and Jerusha Hess remain committed to clotting up the screen with ostensibly charming "eccentricity."

The religious charlatans who are the primary characters in Don Verdean are ripe for comic deflation, but the film’s unsteady tone has no discernible target.

A little of this corn goes a long way.

Rockwell is charmless in a role that seems to be written that way.